[Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

Sun May 31 19:02:31 UTC 2009

2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/5/31 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>> > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> There is no such thing as "one-way internet access". The internet is
>> >> always 2-way.
>> >
>> >
>> > Perhaps so (depends on your definitions), but then, Wave probably isn't
>> > dependent on internet access in the first place.  I see no reason it
>> would
>> > be.
>>
>> If it doesn't work over IP then it isn't the internet, and IP is a
>> two-way protocol.
>
>
> That might work except it isn't true.  UDP/IP is one-way.

It's not. How can you load a webpage without being able to send GETs and POSTs?