[Nicholas Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tue, 2 Aug 2005 06:29:46 -0700]:
what benefits do you see being realized from having the ability to
access The Internet via email considering the current and proposed
infrastructures?
In my case, I have direct internet access for free at my work.
Nick,
I personally know individuals who has internet access but are in
Mainland China. E-mail has been essentially unrestricted, but most outside
IPs are restricted or censored. Some sites like the BBC news site and other
US websites are blocked.
On the other side, I am a freight
Technically, you're right, but there're another factors regarding
cost, time/ease, availability and issues related to site screening
filtering adopted by many countries.
As to the cost, in my place, Baghdad-Iraq, one hour costs me a little more
than $1 for a sluggish dial-up service, let alone
I disagree. While it's obvious that in developing countries email
often is the only way to access the WWW, don't forget mobile
phones/devices. There are very few WAP sites and I haven't heared of
www4sms anytime yet. So email is a way to access non-WAP site on
phones.
On 02/08/05, Nicholas
From:Nicholas Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The relevancy of the internet over SMTP
Not only over SMTP. For 9 years my access was over dial-up UUCP.
I realize that only about 15% of the world has Internet access and that very
few of those people have a fiber local loop but even so,
