Sorry to the non-EARN Listserv list subscribers ... but a special list does not yet exist. On Thu, 6 Jul 89 15:19:38 +0200 Peter Lothberg said: > >Hi folks out there... > >I think, that it is now time to start think about the future, instead of >fighting wars. >What we need is i wide range of services to the end user, at a very high >performance, to a cost that we can afford. >Today, lots of technical 'soulutions' are political, giving low performance >and high cost and even worse, they are to complex for the poor end user. > ................ >Why must the enduser suffer from political wars? Let us now use our time, >money and knowledge to do a state of the art network. The big war has been fought .. what you're watching now is the (desperate) effort to glue to broken pieces together. This doesn't take place without some additional emotional outbursts. In my opinion the end could've been different. But most ppl. simply watched the ongoing war. Maybe under the (false) assumption that somehow all would calm down and in the end nothing would have changed. I got the impression that some thought Eric would draw back, others that the EARN Exec would meet some of the "volunteer's" wishes. I got several personal remarks on that matter, some stating that Eric should listen to reasons others asked, "who elected *this* Exec/BoD?". Now that we have the outcome almost no one believed in kinda panic spreads. It will still take some time until Bitnet/NetNorth perceives the effects of the de-facto split. And - I wouldn't mind if I'd be wrong in that - I guess that the contract (still to be) proposed by EARN will once more stir the discussion. It's not impossible that some EARN sites will NOT sign the contract with EARN - i.e. rather stay at their 1.5o level without support. That could have the effect that the EARN backbone will lose effectiveness in addition to the upcoming problems with the break of the BITNET-EARN backbone. Right now the effect is almost not noticeable - the BITNET and the EARN PEERS NAMES have only slight differences. Comments? - are welcome ... Christian