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Sean, My vote goes for... How to build an Internet Service Company From A to Z... All you need to know to plan, build and market an Internet service company. Tips and tricks from the inside. Charles H. Burke July '96 ISBN: 0-935563-02-4 And I quote... > Coffee Maker - Coffee is an necessary as HTML to the aspiring ISP. > ... > I highly recommend the Bunn-Omatic corporation for excellent high > performance coffee makers. > ... It's a classic! As for driving in the UK and US... I have explained the value of roundabouts to many, many Americans and they still don't get it. Being British, but living in the US... I just don't get why they are not used here. You will have to put up with the face that Bell-heads and Net-heads just doing things differently and not understanding why the other side prefers an opposite method! Martin ---------------- At 03:09 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: >Has anyone written the equivalent of the old Bell Systems Notes on the >Network for the Internet? A couple of books come close, Hueston's ISP >Survival Guide and Cisco's ISP Essentials. But there doesn't seem to >be anything that helps Bell heads understand what switching, routing >or signaling means on the Internet. There are a lot of words which are >spelled alike, but mean very different things in the Bell world and the >Internet world. > >I've been thinking of it like driving in England or the USA. We drive >on different sides of the road. Its safe until you get someone who >doesn't know the rules of the road driving on the other side of the >Atlantic. So how do you explain the rules of the Internet road to someone >used to driving on the telephone system?
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