On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:06, J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > > Europe and mostly France) masterized a long ago through Minitel Interesting about Minitel... I guess my concern about rolling out a Minitel-style system is it would end up being "American-tel", where America "tells" you--and me--what to do. For example, I doubt Minitel Rose would've been allowed here in the States, with central government control (c.f., .SEX gTLD). I haven't found anything that explains how Minitel is secure, though. I can't imagine those little TTYs doing real-time encryption back in the 80s! Is Minitel "space" expensive? I mean like the Minitel equivalent of web hosting. One thing I like about the Internet is I can throw up a server on my dial-up connection and pretty much anyone anywhere can get to it. -s
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