From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 06:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Subject: Re: Clinternet?
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At 10:25 pm -0400 10/11/96, Rabid Wombat wrote:

> With just one small ISP going on the public block for about 50 Million
> next Wed., he better get out a much bigger checkbook ... :)

Ah. I feel much better. How soon I forget my own preaching.

In a geodesic network, a single node (or entity) can't switch all the
traffic. If it does, it chokes. It becomes damage, to paraphrase Gilmore,
and the internet routes around it.

So, Mr. Clinton, come on in, the water's fine. Just don't expect to own the
pool just because of your, er, heavy displacement...



Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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