[Dstar] Re: Dstar Digest, Vol 25, Issue 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, , 7.......get the idea!!!!!!

[James Cameron]

I think it would depend on the actual words of the LCD, the definitions
of the terms used, and the interpretation of the words by the ACMA.  As
we've seen before, it might be best not to ask for a ruling, and to rely
on any ambiguity.

I'm not sure if a "non internet mail server" can exist, unless it be a
mail transport network totally separate from the Internet.

The terms we use have ambiguity too.

If the communication between the amateur operator and the gateway
machine uses TCP/IP, this is an internet, despite it also frequently
being called an intranet or a local network, it is an instance of an
internet.

Wikipedia's disambiguation page puts it like this:

	"Where not capitalized, internet can refer to any internetwork."

Also, mail served in this fashion is still mail from the Internet, so
how could one claim otherwise.  ;-)

There's even tunneling ... I'm the maintainer of pptp and pptpd on
Linux, given a local network on which I can send those packets, I can
send anything else I like, and if you are carrying my packets you won't
have any reasonable way to (a) detect, or (b) prevent.

I've even tunneled TCP/IP within SMTP.  It ain't fast, but it can work.

Give any connectivity and I can get it all.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/