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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:40:52PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > Who said the only purpose of IP was to connect to the Internet? > > Not me. But if you don't connect to the internet you don't contribute > to the global routing table so there is no issue. :-) > > The point is, that these days applications such as mail and web are > sufficiently heavy that you can't even run them cost effectively over > dial up (wasting your employee's time costs more than the fatter line) > let alone less. The Fork Lift driver in some random warehouse does not need email. All he needs is his Barcode scanner to send an 8Digit-Number over the line every 1 or two minutes and get an equal length reply telling him where to Haul the box whose barcode he just scanned. Nils
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