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- From: jnutt@hndymn.fidonet.org (jim nutt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <9ioBwB1w165w@hndymn.fidonet.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:17:07 MST
- References: <BzsLv1.3r4@wang.com>
- Organization: 'the computer handyman' - phoenix, az, usa
- Lines: 21
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- fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
- > tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) writes:
- >
- > > I think you might be overestimating a bit here. Although there are
- > > millions of PC's out there, I suspect only a small fraction of them
- > > are, or would want to become, sites connected to "the net". Thousands
- > > maybe, but not millions.
- >
- > It's dangerous to assume things like this when you design a new network.
- > The original Internet was designed to allow for 254 networks (more than
- > enough, right?), and was later hacked to allow for 16K medium-sized
-
- another example is fidonet.. it doubles in size approximately
- every two years (over 20,000 nodes right now...) and shows no
- signs of slowing down. not to mention all the other bbs nets out
- there..
-
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- jnutt@hndymn.fidonet.org (jim nutt)
- 'the computer handyman' - 602/548-9706
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