Subj : MMTerm?
To   : Ed Williams
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Apr 12 2001 01:32 am

Hi Ed.

09-Apr-01 07:27:00, Ed Williams wrote to Jim Hanoian

 EW> Lastly, I realize you are sold on the Internet as the
 EW> Communications Network of the Future.  While this may eventually
 EW> prove true, it is not currently the case, and it is highly
 EW> doubtful that BBS's will be able to keep up the pace of
 EW> development to keep up with the coming changes of the internet,
 EW> especially as devices replace the computer entirely for Internet
 EW> access and ISP's who provide dial up computer based services wane
 EW> to a minimum.  Everyone knows the day's of Telnet access are now a
 EW> dying species because the new devices won't know telnet from a
 EW> piece of toast.

What do you mean by "new devices", I seriously doubt that the internet will
ever lose telnet capability.

 EW> And cable or DSL connections won't make much of a difference because
 EW> they will only duplicate the things the devices do, only badly.

Huh?

 EW> Telnet itself does not have the intense support
 EW> it needs to be put inside those devices and thus will not be
 EW> supported over the cable/dsl systems much longer.

That's like saying that in the future latin won't work over phone lines....

Why do you say that?

 -=> Bye <=-
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