-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 June 2002 09:35, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Timm Murray: > > RIP, IGRP, OSPF, etc. Not very convienant for your non-techie, but more > > accurate, IMHO. > > I'm so happy to not know what those abbreviations mean. Though I > suspect they have something to do with IP itself.
They're routing protocols. They're used to update tables within a router to figure out what the next hop should be for a given packet. > > Tell me, can I look at HTML or publish files with them? Do you > access them through a web browser by default? No, a regular user wouldn't touch them at all. Which is my point: the web is just one application of the Internet. The web (and e-mail, I suppose) is probably the most visible application of the net, and many people believe that "Internet" and "WWW" are synonyms. However, saying that the web is the Internet is extremely limiting. - -- X windows: The art of incompetence. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0A18oACgkQqpueKcacfLRHLACcDpQ2qs6FU6D4f8BV7NbbHJLN U0kAn2cvXKKsufAsaLKfhvKrQU0/ddp/ =vOxH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat
