Seth Breidbart has the last word on this point, I think:
The Internet is "the largest equivalence class in the reflexive,
transitive,
symmetric closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP packet
from'."
<snip>
The associated press can bite me.
Nice!
Miles
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
