I just *had* to comment.

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:35:46PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> dsr at tao.merseine.nu writes:
> 
> > Ah, MIT.
> >
> > MIT is always a special case, not the general case.
> 
> I beg to differ..  Lots of sites act like MIT, including at least one
> large financial institution in NYC.  It is not, by far, a special case
> (although I do admit it might not be the majority case).

Excuse me, but only people from MIT think that the Athena-style
environment is anything but a special case... and AFAIK, no one
who didn't "grow up" in MIT has ever re-implemented it outside.

Counterexamples welcome.

-dsr-