fall of Bitnet

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From: Bryan, Jerry
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 18:35

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>I know of no service provided by either Bitnet or UUCP that cannot be
>easily duplicated (and for the most part already is duplicated) on
>the Internet.

Not true.  The Internet does not have interactive messaging capability.
It does not have the ability to send files asynchoronously without
passwords, and with the transmission being initiated on the sending
side.  In other words, it lacks "mail" like service for file transfer.
Hence, people sometimes tend to encode files inside of mail, which is
not a very satisfactory replacement for true file transfer.

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 13:35:11 EST
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From: "Bryan, Jerry" <U0A61@WVNVM.bitnet>
Subject:      fall of Bitnet
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