-=> On 12-02-02  22:26,  Steven Horn <=-
 -=> spoke to Felipe T. Dorado about NodelistGuide or FAQ <=-

 SH> I've read your views about the Internet and simply note 
 SH> that some are exaggerated and others are misleading.  While 

   I agree with you there.

 SH> those are are your opinions, views like yours have not
 SH> stopped from Internet shopping and Internet banking.  But 

   Good point, although almost all of that is via fully secured point to
   point communications.

 SH> then unlike you, I sit on the Board of Directors of an ISP
 SH> and have spent years studying the world of electronic 
 SH> commerce.

 SH> Incidentally, I have also worked in an area of law which convinced me
 SH> years  ago that telephone communications were not particularly 
 SH> secure.  They are likely less secure now after September 
 SH> 11, 2001.

   You might add that the relative security of voice telephone
   communications and of electronic communications such as email is
   primarily a matter of law, not technology.  I believe that both forms
   of communications travel over the same or at least similar trunk
   lines run by various telco organizations.

 SH> But to get back to the point, the evolution of a network 
 SH> from one which was POTS based and expensive (you would not 
 SH> have liked to pay my long distance bills before I found an 
 SH> Internet feed for my net's echomail) to one which is 
 SH> efficuent and relatively cheap is evolution.

   Very true.  The past five years have seen most feeds go to being free
   versus CRPs.  For most people, the marginal cost of getting fidomail
   is now free (at least in zone 1) no matter where they get their mail
   (true for both users and sysops).
 
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