Subj : Re: Notice that... To : tenser From : poindexter FORTRAN Date : Wed Feb 16 2022 06:59:00 -=> tenser wrote to Andre <=- te> Well, no, that's not quite right either. The pipe analogy is not te> bad, but is only part of it; in packet-switched systems, large te> amounts of "material" are broken up into smaller packets that are te> sent separately. Nick was quoting US Senator Ted Stevens, lobbying against net.neutrality - very clearly not understanding that which he'd received money from telecom lobbyists to understand. .... SURELY NOT EVERYONE WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122) .