----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of Rhialto Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 05:12 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan Docs 070101
> On Sun 07 Jan 2007 at 12:46:52 +0000, Mike wrote: >> On Sunday 07 Jan 2007 11:18, Duncan wrote: >> >>> either the Internet (the universal one), or the internet (as for >>> instance the one linking the individual building networks on a >>> campus). >> >> Wouldn't the latter be an intRAnet, as opposed to the intERnet? >> That's certainly how we referred to our IP based network when I >> worked for the NHS. > > NONONONO! That word ("intranet") does not exist! It is a > stupid invention of people who don't know the difference between "the > Internet" and an "internet". I hate the stupid word. Really. > > As I remember it, there is a more or less official document > about this, but I haven't found it again... The Internet > Protocol was invented to connect together local networks of > different kinds (ethernet, Xerox PUP, OSI networks, XNS, > other other proprietary network architectures), hence the > "inter" part of "internet". The big global internet would then be > "the" Internet. > > See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenet . > > -Olaf. Then what about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users