WASTE and the net

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt hag at iafrica.com
Sun Jan 28 15:03:44 CST 1996


> Christopher James Tassava writes: 

> P.S.:  If the W.A.S.T.E. system actually exists, wouldn't it be a lot 
> like our beloved medium?  I mean, the Net's almost totally deregulated, 
> underground in many ways, anti-centralized, and often used simply to send 
> meaningless crap from one person to another...

The net isn't at all like WASTE, rather the opposite. The thing about 
WASTE is that it exists as opposition to the government monopoly - 
content with ordinary post is not regulated either, remember. If one 
was to cut out telephones and service providers somehow, then 
maybe....

hg
hag at iafrica.com



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