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From: kent@happym.wa.com (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Size of the Internet vs. UUCP net
Message-ID: <779@happym.wa.com>
Date: 3 May 89 00:44:26 GMT
References: <1989Apr24.203137.5835@utzoo.uucp> <163@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: kent@happym.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt)
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In article <163@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov
(Michael C. Berch) writes:
>... Internet consists of about 56,000 hosts.
> [ and rather liberal estimates put it at perhaps 200,000 ]
>... the UUCP network, is somewhere around 20,000

and concludes:

>Its pioneering history notwithstanding, I believe that in 1989 the
>original V7 UUCP mail format is really not much more than a footnote.

I think that 10 to 25 percent of the community is a rather bulky 
footnote, and really deserves a few chapters of its own, don't you?
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