Is this the new Y2K scam?

[waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 04:39:57PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > > The internet is a community of peers.  Resist the pressure to make it
> > > a "market" with consumers and a priviledged producer class.
> > > See this sad announcement: <http://fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/>
> > 
> >   1) Why do *DESKTOP USERS* need fixed IP addresses *AT THEIR PLACE
> > OF EMPLOYMENT* ???  What servers/peers do their job descriptions call
> > for them to run ???
> 
> See the URL Hugh quoted for one example of a server they might want
> to run:  a receiver for voice-over-IP phone calls.  More generally,
> any service which must be interactive, which can't run in a
> store-and-forward mode like mail, needs to go direct.

  Voice apps, like Speak-Freely, could go over the public net to a
designated port at the corporate gateway.  From there, they could go to
a central PBX at work, and then be routed to the appropriate client.
This is the same model that AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and all the other messenger
services use, except that the central server is under local company
control.

> Mail is the exception, not the rule.

  There is a shared characteristic... do you *REALLY* want to have a
server, listening to the internet, on every desktop at work ?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml