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Re: IP address fee??

  • From: Dave Israel
  • Date: Fri Sep 06 13:30:58 2002 
On 9/6/2002 at 13:18:54 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen said:

> And half the internet's users type "u r kewl", and think that ethernet is
> a broadband connection.
> 
> Just because a misconception is popular doesn't mean we should indulge it. 
> :)
> 
> Think of it as a public service, if you make an effort to say "/24", and 
> someone asks and you explain it, thats one less confused person 
> circulating around teaching others.

Think of it as a service towards your own future, too.  An awful lot
of the new protocols and services arise out of college environments,
and hence the proliferation of protocols that work fine in a campus
network but somehow just don't fly in the "real" world.