On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:51 13AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Jul 2, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Holmes,David A wrote:
Does a "... certain inventor of the Internet ..." refer to the High Performance and Communications Act of 1991, also known as the "Gore Act"? The 1991 Act, based on a study by Dr. Leonard Kleinrock ("Towards a National Research Network") created the commercial Internet that we know and work with today. I don't know, but I do know that Larry Pressler was the sole sponsor of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which is where E-rate came from. This was when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, and as far as I know Senator Gore had nothing to do with this bill; he didn't even offer any amendments. And while Gore was president of the Senate in 1996, he wasn't Senator Gore then...
Snopes covers urban legends http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp Phil Agre traces the story back to a source at the time http://web.archive.org/web/20040603092645/commons.somewhere.com/rre/2000/RRE... While you can't configure your router with politics, politics sometimes wants to tell you how to configure your routers.