Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 23:25:49 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: pechter@lakewood.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet Message-ID: <199708100625.XAA01142@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Aug 1997 02:10:10 EDT." <199708100610.CAA03240@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Chaos will rule in the Internet however when it affects my inbox thats a whole different ball game. Besides, if we don't stop this popular new trend you can kiss global public e-mail good bye . As the days go by , I am leaning more and more to simply shutdown my e-mail subsystem and only let very few entries in. So if the spammers win rest assure that many will do as I am thinking of. Amancio >From The Desk Of Joel Ray Holveck : > > >> Hang on a second, UUNet is the Internet 8) > >> At least thats what their actions are implying --- "to hell with > >> netiguettes we are Uunet" !! > > They really have forgotten their roots and humble start. > > Boy have they become a real Pain In The Ass since they dropped the UUCP > > business to small sites and started hanging out with the likes of > > Microsoft 8-) > > Well, the Internet has changed from its humble beginnings as the > old UUCP net, and ARPANET. Used to it was ham radio, then BBS's, then > the net. What bastions for hobbyists are there now, something where > the popularity doesn't make me sick after fifteen minutes of use? > > -- > Second law of programming: > Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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