"James A. Donald" says:
On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
I spoke with Stuart Baker for a while, during which time he informed me that he didn't think the internet could possibly last
I find that most statists on the internet assume that the internet is some kind of government service.
When they discover that it is not, they wonder how it can possibly exist, and assume it will soon collapse.
I got the distinct impression that he didn't know that the internet was in real use by big companies to conduct their daily affairs. When I asked him if he'd ever heard of Cisco, he said he hadn't; he seemed slightly suprised when I explained that it was a Fortune 500 company that basically did nothing but sell internet routing equipment. I don't know if the bastards are posing or are legitimately ignorant but either way they are dangerous. .pm