It was thus said that the Great Mouse once stated: > > > What I've often wondered is why there are so many IT people with the > > same sort of laments and we haven't all collectively built our own > > networks over wireless ? > > The crazy patchwork quilt of regulations applying to amateur use of > radio spectrum, is my guess. Now, I would add the depressingly high > chance of being invaded by the masses if/when we build something big > enough to be useful. We've already built one network only to have it > invaded and overrun; why would we expect anything different to happen > to the new one?
Just look into the political machinations of what was known as FidoNet to see how this could end up. -spc ("The fighting was intense because the stakes were so low ... ")