On 12 Jul 96 at 5:51, Daniel Salber wrote: [..]
As Minow pointed out, this is not the only case of "hijacking". The telephone was first intended as a way to listen to remote concerts. Then users found out they could use it for one-to-one conversations.
This is innacurate. No, methinks it's wrong. From every history of telephones I have read and heard, it was never that way. The original conception was of using the telephone for broadcasting. It's implementation in most countries was for point-to-point communication... it wasn't a matter of the users 'found they could use it' (at least not in the US). Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.