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

 > expensive stuff. True, much more fun, but it ain't free.
 JP> There is nothing about being free that requires us to be
 JP> primitive.  The protocols and standards used in the Internet are
 JP> freely available for anyone to implement.  You don't need

I didn't mean protocols and junk. I don't think many sysops have the funds to
get FIBRE OPTIC links and SATELITE links. Normal telephones cannot cope with
large amounts of data (at least, not instantanious).

 JP> multi-gigabyte per second communication links and huge mainframes to
 JP> be able to use RFC-822, MIME, HTML, and the variety of other useful
 JP> goodies that exist that could be grafted onto Fidonet. 

Yeah, true. But if you want to install PERMANENT links for these systems,
that's your problem. HTML etc. need permanent links. I'm sure as hell not
going to pay for it. Maybe the BIG BBSs can afford it, but I can't. Another
thing, the internet protocols are also designed to share a link. 1 cable or 1
satelite channel. Normal fone lines just can't be shared, which means 1 user at
a time, one way.

Regards,
 - SoNiC

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