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On Thu, 6/18/15, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Question
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 9:18 AM

 > On
 Jun 18, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org>
 wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> Rather like the Internet, a few years
 later...
 >
 > IMO, a
 large, strong, heavily-industrialized polity needs a robust
 infrastructure.  It's just that everyone would rather
 someone else paid for it. :/

 Funny that :-)

 >
 > ObTrav:  the X-Boat
 network - its creation, maintenance, and (proposed)
 upgrades, and funding for all of the above.
 >

 I think
 that’s *precisely* why the ISSS are the folks in
 “charge” of the XBoat system…I see it as the
 equivalent of the US Post Office.

 The Emperors have figured out that getting a
 universal J4 communications/delivery system into place means
 that a) their J6 couriers always get there faster :-) and
 they don’t have multiple streams of private information
 carriers to tap :-P

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Ah-Hah! Now we finally know the 'Real'(tm) reason that the J6 XBoat upgrade mentioned in early TNS dispatches was never carried thru to fruition!

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