Can you define such scenarios and dive deeper into your point?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com">bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:32:25AM -0500, Avri Doria wrote:<br>
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> I guess i tend to want to push the meaning of 'Critical' to the edge of 'something without which there is no Internet'<br>
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> The question then becomes for me one of the locality and temporality of that statement. Critical for the Internet at large, or Criticial for Internet at some place in time.<br>
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> 'Internet At large' works fine if by our definition being an Internet means reaches all people. But few people mean that, I think.<br>
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</div> the -only- people who really -NEED- to have reachability to all people are direct marketers.<br>
And they are in the class of communications I have no desire to receive - ever.<br>
There are only a small handful of scenarios that I can envision that would require the<br>
ability for everyone on the planet to communicate with everyone else on the planet.<br>
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imho of course.<br>
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--bill<br>
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