Title: This book is a mess.
Product review: It is not suitable for either the beginner or the expert. It is disorganized. Specialized terms are used without being defined or before being defined. There are repeated digressions, for example a timeline that begins with the first TV Guide being published and ends with the number of internet hosts exceeding 36 million (pp 64). There is an enormous amount of superfluous material, bringing this book to 800+ pages for a "lightweight" protocol and requiring constant filtering on the part of the reader. The authors have a poor command of the English language, have little knowledge of organizational structure, and have difficulty following a single line of thought. The material is sometimes patronizingly simple ("A network is...") and other times it uses specialized directory terms that are never defined in the book. Overall, a disaster.
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