🚀 go-pugleaf

Mike Lawrie writes:
 > In <1591@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
 > 
 > >What I may be trying to say is that you may be able to put up a solar
 > >cell, with a $50 (that food for ~100 days in some areas) terminal and
 > >a modem, to push data down a telehone line "reliable for 3 hours a
 > >day", but where are you are going to buy or exchange or cannibilise
 > >spare parts for any part of the equipment that breaks down?
 > 
 > What you are actually saying is a lot of trash, viz don't let
 > anyone start because it is conceivable that something might
 > possibly go wrong with their equipment and this could not get
 > fixed.
 > 
 > You have not the slightest idea of what can be done with a "mirrors
 > and string" approach, and this represents a very disappointing
 > but not atypical attitude from someone in a high-tech country. If
 > you encourage something to get off the ground, you'd end up surprised
 > at what results could be achieved, if you kill it because the sky
 > might fall on your head, you get nowhere.
 > 
 > Mike
 > --
 > Mike Lawrie
 > Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa
 > .....................<ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za>..........................
 > Rhodes University condemns racism and racial segregation 

Re-reading this message again underlines a thought that has been
bugging me. I find it hard enough to be understood in my own
department, let alone in the Sotherm Hemisphere.

I also wonder whether "email" is the medium of choice for all
communitities in all parts of the world. With the X.400 protocol,
voice-mail and pictures are possible.

Anyway, it has be English or Spanish if it is going to be
spoken/written. The Chinese dialects and Japanese are not the easiest
for email transmission, as yet. I do not know about Cyrillic.

Gordon.
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