New subject: Spectrum makes a comeback

8 Feb 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Thomas Strathmann [mailto:thomas@tstrathmann.de] 
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  I think about this a lot sometimes. Mostly when I am
again deeply
 frustrated about the behaviour of certain morons on the 
 Internet. What I 
Me too. :)

...
  would like to do is what some people call a guerilla
net, a WLAN that
 connects like-minded people to form a community seperate from 
 the Internet.
 But using existing Internet connections would be better for 
 obvious reasons
 (price, availability, bridging huge distances etc.). The problem with 
Well, existing internet connections are a good idea, but I like to -- 
in principal -- separate this thing from internet as much as possible.
Basically I had thought of using the existing internet connections 
for anything that would cause extra charges to be applied to your
phone bill ;)  In the local area, I was thinking of telephone only.
Packet radio where available.

...
  testing a program/configuration/installation of such a
service is not
 within my capacity, I would need access to a server with a 
 reasonably fast
 connection which is, more important, online 24/7. 
Well, if you want a relay network, no you wouldn't. :)  Otherwise yes.

My idea was for a relay net, since it would allow most people who have
the wherewithal and the intelligence to set some stuff up to participate
with little or no cost.

It would also keep the idiots away because it's "slow, and why won't my
web browser work." :)

Chris

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