> Other than latency, message size, message rate, and the number of > participants, what is the difference between an AOL chat room and this > mailing list as exemplified by this thread? why, the participants, of course. once people move into chat rooms and make acquaintances there, they become reluctant to leave. if changing service providers means they must leave, they're less likely to change service providers even though they get lousy service. I suspect the "reluctance to leave" is no less true for mailing lists. but IETF mailing lists don't require you to use any particular ISP. still, my point was that the AOL community is more-or-less disjoint from the community of folks who read IETF documents, and is likely to remain so. that's not necessarily a bad thing overall, but it does imply that IETF will have little effect on the decision-making habits of AOL subscribers. if AOL subscribers cared about standards compliance they would have left AOL long ago. Keith
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- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Keith Moore
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Masataka Ohta
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt John Stracke
- RE: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Bob Braden
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Masataka Ohta
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Greg Skinner
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Masataka Ohta
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Vernon Schryver
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Keith Moore
- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Vernon Schryver
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- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Greg Skinner
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- Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt Greg Skinner
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