[MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: [mesh] WOAH!

[Matt Chipman]

In the short term, it would be nice to have a few low bandwidth services
available purely as a communication medium to the Internet such as a fido to
Internet email gateway with a 200 k message limit or a icq gateway without
the ability to send files.  I think this would be worthwhile for when the
network extends to some areas where people dont want or need fully blown
access to the Internet but do require some sort of communication to the
internet world.

People have to change the way they think.  This is a technologically
advanced thing we are doing and once the network increases its size in a few
years, there will be a great deal of extremely good content on this
Intranet.

How many people during the 80's-90's continually rang the same BBS because
of the content?

Eventually, ISP's will be coming to us to use *our* excess bandwidth to
transport large volumes of traffic down a fast network for 1 or 2 c per meg.

Melbourne Wireless will be the Linux of the Wireless scene as long as people
keep helping people to get a node up.

-Matt



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwayne" <dwayne at pobox.com>
To: "melbourne wireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Fwd: [mesh] WOAH!


> Ryan Abbenhuys wrote:
> >
> > Then aren't they heading in the wrong direction if they are coming
towards
> > melbwireless for internet access?
>
> With all due respect I'd suggest it is not for you or I to set Melbourne
> Wireless policy, it is up to the members.  If the membership wants IP
> access to the net, are you going to say no?
>
> And if so, how exactly are you going to do that?
>
> > What happened to the good old days when people would joining the mailing
> > list and say "oh cool free internet access I want to connect" and
everyone
> > responded with "ummm no, wrong idea, free "Intranet" access".
>
> If you'll remember back that far you'll remember it wasn't everyone it
> was a few vocal members and you'll also remember me pointing out that it
> was up to the membership to decide policy.  We may well agree on no
> external linkage to the Internet. Or we might not.  I'd like it, I'll
> vote for it, it's not why I'm here, I just am a fan of redundancy.
>
> > If we aren't marketing Melbwireless as a wireless ISP yet people come to
us
> > thinking that's what we are then maybe we need to start emphasising a
few
> > things to stress that this is not the case.
>
> Such as exactly what we are.
>
> Dwayne
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