But the Internet is not the postal system nor the phone system. We already
have the postal system and the phone system. They may be slower, but does
that mean they should be replaced or that the Internet must duplicate what
these systems do? BLB
Dave Crocker wrote:
At 08:03 AM 12/3/00 +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
I guess one of the first questions should be; "Is some partitioning of
the Internet community such a bad thing?".
Would it be such a bad thing to be unable to make a phone call to anywhere
in the world?
Would it be such a bad thing to be unable to postal mail a letter or
package to anywhere in the world?
d/
ps. strictly rhetorical questions, as I hope is obvious.
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