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

[KevinL]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:24, Matt Chipman wrote:
> 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.

I'd like the ability to tunnel between nodes via the 'net, while we
build this vast community network.

> 
> 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.

You're expecting melb-wireless will charge ISPs for access?

KJL


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