YouGov :"POLL - Blunkett's proposals on internet privacy: for or against"

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:56:39 +0000
	Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> said...

> So could a standalone system be considered a telecoms system under
> these rules?  Is there a difference between the application (for
> example the emacs with which I am writing this reply) communicating
> with the X11 server situated in the same computer and running on the
> same CPU, and communicating over a LAN (or WAN) with a display (and
> keyboard) on a different computer (or even a standalone 'non-computer'
> terminal). Or with an application program running an SQL client
> interfacing with a database on the same computer and one communicating
> with a server on another computer? As far as both the applications and
> servers are concerned there is no difference, the server is listening
> on TCP/IP ports and the client application connects to these - whether
> the connections are on the same or different hosts. The only
> difference is how the operating system routes the packets between
> client and server.
> 
But I don't think the systems you have described amount to a Private
Telecommunications System, since they are not connected to any Public
Telecommunications System.

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