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Article #337Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'
From: Mark McIntyre
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:48
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:48
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John Navas wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:52:55 +0100, Mark McIntyre > <markmcintyre@TROUSERSspamcop.net> wrote in > <rfo6k.188957$6i4.132499@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com>: >> John Navas wrote: >>> What part of "most people" was unclear? ;) >> The part where you produced some evidence that "most people" only >> generated hundreds of megs of monthly traffic? :-) > > The evidence is readily available, as I'm sure you know. :-) Thats neither an answer to the question, nor true. >>>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "things the Internet promised" -- do you? >>>>> -- but I don't see any real risk to anything other than massive >>>>> audio/video downloading, which is NOT what the Internet was built for. >>>> Could you direct me to a reference which outlines "what the Internet was >>>> built for"? I had always mistakenly assumed that it was a dumb network >>>> whose usage was limited only by the imagination of those utilizing it. >>> There are ample references to the fact that multicasting wasn't a >>> consideration in the original design of TCP/IP, on which the Internet is >>> based, as I'm sure you know. >> I'm unclear as to how this answers the question. > > Why am I not surprised. At a guess, because you are incapable of detecting irony?
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