Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!rex!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.uu.net 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> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 22 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 And you're pretty out of date.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 amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda "It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression 'As pretty as an airport.'" --Douglas Adams