RE: [Pan-users] Re: Pan Docs 070101

[Travis]

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Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan Docs 070101

> On Sun 07 Jan 2007 at 12:46:52 +0000, Mike wrote:
>> On Sunday 07 Jan 2007 11:18, Duncan wrote:
>>
>>> either the Internet (the universal one), or the internet (as for
>>> instance the one linking the individual building networks on a
>>> campus).
>>
>> Wouldn't the latter be an intRAnet, as opposed to the intERnet?
>> That's certainly how we referred to our IP based network when I
>> worked for the NHS.
>
> NONONONO! That word ("intranet") does not exist! It is a
> stupid invention of people who don't know the difference between
"the
> Internet" and an "internet". I hate the stupid word. Really.
>
> As I remember it, there is a more or less official document
> about this, but I haven't found it again... The Internet
> Protocol was invented to connect together local networks of
> different kinds (ethernet, Xerox PUP, OSI networks, XNS,
> other other proprietary network architectures), hence the
> "inter" part of "internet". The big global internet would then be
> "the" Internet.
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenet .
>
> -Olaf.

Then what about this?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet

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