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   On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:43:34 +0100, "markp"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"David Schwartz"  wrote in message   
   >news:8a306499-3f14-43cd-9999-a0349dce0ad8@u22g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...   
   >On Mar 29, 3:44 pm, Hans-Bernhard Bröker    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I believe that, strictly speaking, that can't happen. If you have no   
   >>> internet at the moment, you don't have DHCP either. Remember that DHCP   
   >>> itself is a UDP service. UDP in turn works on top of IP, and that, for   
   >>> better or for worse, is "internet".   
   >   
   >>Many networks that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Internet   
   >>have adopted its protocol. You can't have the Internet without IP, but   
   >>you can certainly have IP with the Internet.   
   >   
   >For this thread to make any sense you should be able to define exactly what   
   >an 'Internet' is. Off you go...   
      
   There is only one Internet, so "an Internet" is grammatically incorrect.  It   
   should be "the Internet".  There is no argument about the definition of   
   "Internet", as there is only one (note that the capitalized "Internet" denotes   
   a proper noun).   
      
   If you're not talking about *the* Internet, rather a network of computers   
   outside *the* Internet, you should say "an internet".  There you might have an   
   legitimate argument over the precise definition of "internet".   
      
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