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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Networks Considered Harmful...
Message-ID: <1989Dec16.191021.26031@phri.nyu.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 19:10:21 GMT
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In <25086@cup.portal.com> Nagle@cup.portal.com (John Nagle) writes:
>      Well, in the real world, I understand that electronic mail is
>on the decline, and is being replaced by fax.

	A year or so ago, some people here had need to establish regular
communications with somebody at Monash University in Australia.  We proved
that email worked in both directions but then the guy at the other end
insisted we switch to fax.  Seems that he gets charged for both incomming
and outgoing email and fax was cheaper!
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Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
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