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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Franchise Opportunity
Message-ID: <1363@intercon.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 17:08:49 GMT
References:  <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <1989Aug9.140945.5371@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <937@utoday.UUCP> <339@m2xenix.UUCP> <943@utoday.UUCP> <3992@looking.on.ca> <44233@bbn.COM>
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In article <44233@bbn.COM>, denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste) writes:
[lots of stuff about ARPAnet]
> I'm sorry, you're just plain wrong.

And you're pretty out of date.  A lot of Usenet news is propagated across
NSFnet, but the NSF is not DARPA.  ARPAnet is quickly ceasing to exist...

The folks at the NSF have said (I don't remember the exact quote) "go ahead
and use the bandwidth for News.  We'll make more..."

This isn't to say you don't have a point, but you might want to bone up
a little on NSFnet, MILNET, and the plans for the National Research Internet
before pontificating...

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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