Tim and all,

Tim Salo wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:11:29 +0000
> > From: Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Draft Poisson minutes
> >       [...]
> >   Fred, you are way over dramatizing here.  ...
> >
> >   There are many areas of the US that have very limited hardware
> > capability that may exclude them in some ways with respect to this
> > question/concern and are very limited on $$ resources to enable them
> > to upgrade to more current technology.  I am thinking of the Ohio
> > Valley area in particular here.  Asd I have spent a good deal of
> > time and $$ in assisting communities in some of these areas (Particular
> > the Ohio Valley area), I am speaking first hand.  Yet, these
> > communities have need and desire to participate.  To use a standard
> > to exclude them or limit their ability to participate in purposeful
> > manner is morally wrong when it is not necessary, which
> > I believe is the case here.
> >       [...]
>
> Are you telling us that the people you were assisting were reading
> RFCs?

  Yes.

> Are you telling us that changing the format of protocol
> standards might prevent people in the Ohio Valley area from being
> wired?

  Yes potentially so, depending of the format change...

>
>
> (Who is being dramatic now???)

Fred and it seems you possibly...  Though dramatic may be an
improper term where you are concerned here with the tenor of your
questions, which I believe my original comments made very clear,
before you ask them here in your response.  A better term might be
"Condescending" with respect to your response here...

>
>
> -tjs

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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