On Wed, 20 Apr 1994 wcs@anchor.ho.att.com wrote:
I suspect purely legal Internet gambling would either have to go off-shore, or convince governments not to be hypocritical about their monopolies.
Perhaps not yet on the Internet but there sure is a lot of ascii-interfaced net.gambling going on internationally. The best example might be the currency market. The major Swedish telecom supplier Telia (until some years ago a monopoly like Ma Bell) recently entered a two- page ad in the biggest papers boasting of their bandwidth capacity ("we already have what the US is planning"). As an example of the usefulness of this technical superiority they announced that Stockholm players on the fast-moving net.markets had some 3-second lead in certain areas that could mean a lot of opportunities. //mb