-=> Quoting John Passaniti to Scott Little <=-

 > least, not instantanious).
 JP> I think I see what is going to be the biggest problem in
 JP> convincing people of using global standards.  I say "Internet" and
 JP> your mind immediately jumps to ultra-high speed links as being a

Not exactly. Internet is a part of a superhighway with lots of bottomless
potholes. Not extremely fast, but it can sure carry a lot of stuff.

 JP> RFC-822, MIME, and HTML are *completely* and *totally*
 JP> independent of the transport.  These are simply data formats, and as
 JP> such can be transmitted over the fastest gigabit links or the slowest
 JP> RTTY. 

I thought you mean in that way it was being used on Internet currently for
WWW.

 > Yeah, true. But if you want to install PERMANENT links for
 > these systems, that's your problem. HTML etc. need permanent

 current Fidonet technology.  HTML is nothing but a popular and
 standard way of attributing text documents. 

Now we get back to the prob of trasport being TOO slow. If everyone started
using hypertext in messages, the size of mail packets would more than double,
if people started attaching pictures to the documents as well, some poor mug
is going to have a very nice long distance phone bill. I'm already stretching
at the limit with my 'signature' file on the end of messages. You should see
the size of the sig file I use on Internet mail/news...


To sum it up: I never said it was impossible. Just very impractical. It is hard
to find a zone co-ordinator willing to spend huge amounts of $ to call overseas
and receive around 25+ meg of stuff a day (compressed), not including file
echos. If these packets get to be too big, perhaps we might have to consider
getting a company to do the importing, or perhaps, we could send these packets
via Internet. Ironic isn't it.

I really wish Telstra would convert all their exchanges to digital, so modems
would be more like a LAN card.

Regards,
 - SoNiC
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