--- "Christopher J. Richter" <crichter@hollins.edu> wrote:
media, as Anders suggests. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the internet taken broadly shouldn't be considered as a medium at all, but a domain or infrastructure for various media. But as
Thanks Christopher for stating the obvious. The internet IS the infrastructure and other things happen on it. The packet could care less. Its 'purpose in life' is to get from point A to point B, preferably without colliding with any other packet (if it does, ethernet constraints tell it what to do). It carries data not messages. The messages, etc. are coded at one end and decoded at the other end. The internet is not a media! although I can see how it carries that burden today. People are still confounding the internet with the WWW. The web has expressive elements, the internet does not. A losing battle here, but that's me on record as a former IT technologist. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, Ph.D. submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html