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Article #736Facts & Realities into the Internet 1996.It's a big Pity!!!!
From: boris
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 00:00
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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