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To: cirrus who wrote (8302)	12/16/1997 4:37:00 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 21342

To all... Bob Metcalf was kind enough to respond to my e-mail regarding his INFOWORLD article. Normally, I wouldn't submit private e-mail comments, but since I was somewhat sarcastic in my opinion of his views and past predictions, I feel I should also present Bob's elaboration. Below is the gist of his response. Bob's acknowledged expertise raises some interesting points that we WSTL proponents might want to consider: ________ The Internet did NOT gigalapse, true, but has been bogging and collapsing quite steadily. AltaVista WAS impressively upgraded to take the load, true, but still hasn't indexed the Web. So, which ADSL do you think works? Which standard? How far? How fast? How many deployed? ADSL was not engineered properly for binder crosstalk. Experts say so. That's why we're seeing so many forms of it and no major deployments, just talk. Cable modems have had this problem for a long time and may just now be coming out of it. By the way, I admit when I'm wrong, and it's happened a few times. Let's watch ADSL now.