[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[touch at strayalpha.com]

On Feb 11, 2023, at 11:59 AM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 12-Feb-23 06:42, Bob Hinden via Internet-history wrote:
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> <snip>
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>> I used to like saying that ATM was like ATM machines except that you only were allowed to put money in :-)
> 
> Oh, I simply have to quote this from my book:
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> "I laughed at a press cutting from a Dutch computer industry
> newspaper, wherein the journalist reported me as saying that the future of high
> speed networking would be based on the 'gelduitbetalingsautomaat', the Dutch
> term for Automated Teller Machine."

At $80/month for service, that’s not inaccurate, IMO.

Joe