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Facts & Realities into the Internet 1996.It's a big Pity!!!!

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From: boris
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00
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Dear readers

I appreciate of reading this email in English although I understand very 
good Dutch and I speak a little cause of my short living in this nice 
country.

I am an Internet Network Systems Operator improving my services in 
Belgium since 2 years by now. Graduated from Greek Marine Forces, as a 
professional in telecommunications officer, and part of the Arpanet 
infrastructure before a long time ago, I decided to come in this country 
working on the Internet project with love and dedication.

Since 1 1/2 year ago, I started teaching small and medium aged children 
the use of Internet, creating a small and beautiful team in a 
sportcenter in Gent - Belgium as also creating Internet communication 
environments for multiple different providers in this country.

5 months ago I was invited by a company (Internet Service 
Provider)promissing me that I can have a good monthly payment for 
Internet Network Services which I had to give them, including a part of 
this company's benefit.

Under a lot of promises for an official country 
statement(contract)-which I never obtained for 5 months-for my services 
as an one-person independent company- and after 6 months, I 
was definitely thrown in the middle of the street after giving my 
know-how to them as also myself completely.The official amount that is 
owed to me after these months is more than 500.000BEF. Why? Was I a 
criminal? Because of this magazines as Weekend Knack wrote about the 
first Internet Sport Center with applied teaching of Internet ever 
creared worldwide? Do people who work on this beautiful Internet, 
creating a small part of schience, have to die in the middle of the 
street because of some sharks in the market?

Can somebody explain to the open public, which is the culture & the 
future that the young University students from Computer Sciences-coming 
in the real life- have to expect?

Which are the laws from the state that protect our project of work & 
science?

As a specialist in this project coming from Greece -a member of EEC-in 
1994, when Internet was not really existing in this country here, I 
never thought that there could have been people,general directors-as 
they want to name themselves-from companies which knew NOTHING about 
this Internet Wide Area Network, not even knowing also how to pick up 
their email.Do companies like these can be named Internet Service 
Providers?

Is there any specific policy here in Belgium which protects the rights 
of these people that work -back of the stage-creating applications & 
communications for the open public?

This company also probably tries to proove that I had never been a 
system administrator/support engineer when they dissappeared my name as 
technical administrator in the 
http://www.dns.be/cgi-bin/wrapper_get_info.cgi?net4u  when before some 
couple of days was existing and already exist in other domain names 
which I created, under customer requests:
http://www.dns.be/cgi-bin/wrapper_get_info.cgi?fitit

Which is the real control and justice on this environment?
Why almost 100 people which already subscribed, have to have problems 
with their connection? Why an Internet user cannot relay on his 
provider?

I feel really sorry for such behaviour in the early begining of this 
creative network.

Closing I would like to thank all these collieges which stayed becide me 
and even teached me a lot these 2 years. Some of them had been even 
younger.

Culture and schience in Belgium & Worldwide around Internet is created 
every day, and people who are back of it as also new users(companies & 
independents)have to be more careful.

Being always open for comments & questions, thank you very much for your 
time.

Chris J. Margetis
Network Systems Operator/Internet Support Engineer
Ex-System administrator of Net4U Internet Service Provider

Email:scmonline@hotmail.com
Tel:075/649999
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From: boris <Internet@netspace.be>
Subject: Facts & Realities into the Internet 1996.It's a big Pity!!!!
Date: 1996/09/24
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