Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:24:27 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: pechter@lakewood.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet Message-ID: <199708101824.OAA09462@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708100625.XAA01142@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Sat, 09 Aug 1997 23:25:49 -0700)
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>>>> Hang on a second, UUNet is the Internet 8) >>> 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? > 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. No, we will simply stop using public media such as the Usenet, and never give out our snailmail addresses. -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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