From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (no email)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 23:08:42 EST
> > I'll take "the right customer base" for $50 please Alex.
>
> which is NOT the current dsl/cable-modem user, obviously?
Correct.
> > Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell had an idea in 1987. How is this any different?
> >
>
> mumble, mumble giant telephone company mumble mumble... In all
> seriousness, I'm not sure this is any different. Their idea, if I got it
> right, was 'ip everywhere'. Perhaps providing smaller scale 'good' colo
> with strong abuse/support is possible, just don't get greedy and get
> gigantic.
The original idea was for USENIX to fund provisioning commercial UUCP
and Usenet access. Go beyond the Federal green-stamp and .edu gardens,
which was NOT the same as going into direct competition with The Well.
It was sparse. It went beyond the then-edge of UUCP and Usenet provisioned
transport and content, but it assumed the existance of a damping function,
and at this point in time, it isn't a waste of time to mull over both of
the positions argued later by Eric Allman and Peter Honneyman.
Eric
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