Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : mark lewis
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Fri Jul 27 2001 01:46 pm

 >>>BS>       Is that the isp's problem, or shitty telco service?
 >>>
 >>> it doesn't matter... the point is that some folk simply do
 >>> not have access to the internet...
 >
 >BS>       I guess I find it hard to believe that if they really
 >BS> wanted it, they'd find a way, that's all.
 >
 > i guess i'm under the impression that the discussion was based around
 > being in one's home... not having to go to the office or to the library
 > or cybercafe or some such...

      Yet these are viable choices.

 >>>>> telnet across the local LAN <<GG>>
 >>>
 >>>BS>       Then the LAN is internet-connected.  DUH!
 >>>
 >>> nope... could be something as simple as a "neighborhood LAN"... we used
 >>> to put in "neighborhood CATV" some years ago... even have "neighborhood
 >>> water" in many areas... the water thing is more along the lines of
 >>> emergency backup for when a well might run dry... one could switch over
 >>> to the 'neighborhood' pipes and draw some water as needed till the well
 >>> was operational... the neighborhood LAN idea was originally started as a
 >>> way of the kids in the neighborhood(s) to play DOOM and QUAKE against
 >>> each other without having to drag the machines all over to one house to
 >>> play...
 >
 >BS>       My argument still applies, "Then the LAN is
 >BS> internet-connected.  DUH!"
 >
 > nope... not intERnet... i suppose maybe intRAnet... in the old days, it
 > was done with coax cable and then moved to CAT5... some today is being
 > done with wireless... the point is that there is no access to the
 > outside network(s)... only the machines and servers on the neighborhood
 > network... you may be thinking too large in this case <<GG>>


      If they can get to the outside world, aka internet, then the lan's
internet connected, and they have access.  If not, it isn't, and they don't.





                       .....Bob

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