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Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction

George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au> Thu, 25 July 1996 21:39 UTC

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To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
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Subject: Re: Metcalfes "imminent death of the internet" prediction
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From: George Michaelson <ggm@connect.com.au>
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  	Bob has been on a long-term campaign to raise people's awareness of
  the limitations to the current system.  The issue is a valid one.  Bob's
  style has been very consistent and always of the chicken-little variety.
  That, I'm afraid, is highly counter-productive.
  
Right. Now if he'd said "excessive use of real-time dataflows is going to
kill the internet unless we change things to match demand" I wouldn't have
been so cynical. Of course, its not quotable either.

Personally, I liked it better when it was ttys and text. I'm pretty happy
with newspapers and radio for my slice of Olympic failures of the day.

On to real topics...

-George
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