At 23:51 30/11/2004, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 30 November 2004 20:34, Laurie Miles wrote:
>
> > Midge - what?
> > Then I would be outside NHSnet, and would probably be ineligible for
> > computer reimbursement.
> > We are tied to staying with NHSnet, with all its limitations (and
> > benefits).
>
>Well, if essentially everyone does, then the rest are tied, perhaps.
>That leaves the underground, and the side-by-side.
>
>The size of the underground is unknown. It may not even exist. In fact, come
>to think of it, it definitely does not exist, there are no instances, nobody
>does anything like that, even in areas where Consume the Net is active and
>effective.
>
>At the (rather high security) los Alamos National Research Lab in the US,
>there are two networks running through the building. If you go in and need
>an Internet connection, you plug into the visitors network.
>A general Practice might well have an NHS Network and a business network, and
>one would belong to the partners. Given that it doesn't connect to NHS Net,
>it might be wireless, even.
>
>In the (I think adequately secured) teaching hospital at UCLA, network access
>is provided to those that need it. It isn't seen as something that needs to
>be booked ahead but as a tool of business. I like that.
>
>Anyway, you are, like all GPs, well-off and empowered, and if you really want
>or need something so simple as a network connection to the Internet with a
>working email connection under your control, you will have it.
>
>There. Make want become have.
>--
>Dr Adrian Midgley
Eloquently, intelligibly, and usefully stated.
Much appreciated.
Julian
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