Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!David
From: David@cup.portal.com (David Michael McCord)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: V.32 will dominate the marketplace (Was: Re: Which is best?
Message-ID: <10881@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Nov 88 21:34:00 GMT
References: <9515@conexch.UUCP> <1125@vsi1.UUCP> <299@telebit.UUCP> <10711@
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First of all, I knew that I was going to get flamed by posting opinons rather 
divergent to the opinions of the majority in this group.  Some of the flames 
were rather amusing, such as the non sequitur character aspersions because I 
post from Portal, the conclusion I work for ROLM (not true), confusing 
higher-level applications such as MNP with modulation techniques, etc.  
However, I see no need to encourage such behavior and will refrain from 
responding to it in the future, even in the subdued fashion represented by 
this paragraph.

Second, the stated purpose of my original posting was to express a dissenting 
(and admittedly minority) opinion about "Which is Best?", and that is all I 
have done.  I am suprised and pleased by the quantity of insightful 
commentary (and unfortunately, useless drivel) that has been generated.

Third, I can see how my first posting could give the impression that my point 
was something like "Don't EVER use Telebit or HST!".  That is not exactly 
correct.  I can and will concede that there may be adequate business cases 
for using vendor-proprietary hardware in certain situations.  However, such a 
business case also carries with it significant disadvantages related to 
interoperability and market support.  These disadvantageous factors do not 
easily translate into dollars and cents, and when they do, their value will 
vary depending on circumstances.

In a small business or closed-end applications, the value of global 
interoperability and market support may be virtually nil; in a large 
multinational corporation or public access application the value of these 
same items will be very high.

In my opinion, USENET news distribution is obviously a global, public access 
application.  The negative dollars and cents value of using a nonstandard 
medium for distribution is being ignored if all that is compared is the price 
of the modems.  The same is true of bulletin boards, Telenet, etc.

I still think you guys have made a big mistake.


David@cup.portal.com