On Mon, 16 Mar 1992 23:47:52 PST Malcolm Carlock <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>> I frequently have sub-minute response to/from addresses in North
>> America, and the access time to Europe isn't much less.
>
>Er.. Compare this to sub-second response via the Internet to/from
>addresses in Japan and Europe from the U.S.
Sub-second response time for mail? You've got to be kidding. And who
cares if it takes 37 seconds or 0.37 seconds for your mail to reach its
recipient? He will need long minutes to read and answer anyway, not to
mention the time zones.
>At the risk of sounding flippant, I would strongly suggest you gain some
>before making further serious recommendations in this area.
At the risk of sounding flippant, I would strongly suggest that you read
before flaming. He said he pinged a site. How do you ping if you don't
have Internet access?
>> And why should the networks be 'competing', both offer unique
>> services, that each institution must balance prior to committing to
>> one/other/both.
>
>If there's any real "competition" between the two networks, it's due to
>the Internet offering the same sorts of services as, and many more than
>BITNET,
You don't seem to have much knowledge about BITNET and the services it
offers. May I suggest that you heed your own advice and gain some
experience before wasting everyone's time on a stupid, misinformed flame?
The reason why BITNET still exists, now that it is (mostly) being run
over TCP/IP and requires payment of an additional membership fee and
purchase of additional NJE software, is that it offers services that the
Internet doesn't provide. When I want to send a program to a colleague in
the US, I type a simple command which takes half a second to execute and
the file is on its way. It does not need to be uuencoded, split into
pieces smaller than 50k, reconstructed at the other end, have mail
headers removed, be uudecoded, and so on. I do not need his login
password to FTP it into his machine and, if a line is down, I do not need
to retry manually until I get it through, at 1kb/sec.
Now may we please get back to constructive, list-maintenance related
debates. If you want to flame BITNET, there is always usenet.
Eric
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