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There have been several great responses to this post and wanted to jump in
with a comment about the use of a tilde in a URL. When I first became
involved with the internet, it was through an organization called
LibertyNet. <http://www.libertynet.org/>. When LibertyNet was established
about four years ago it was with the intent of providing internet access to
non-profits and schools that could not afford it, as well as to be a web
server host for organizations to have a web site at low or no cost. As a
professional trainer I volunteered to help them develop a training program,
and LibertyNet's was the first internet training program offered in the
Philadelphia area.

Most of the organizations had tilde names,
www.libertynet.org/~yourorganization. The server was recently updated and
the tilde is no longer necessary. For all of you who have suggest that the
tilde represents a personal page, I encourage you to visit the LibertyNet
site. Follow the Directory link and you will find 668 non-profit, elected
official and a few small business sites are hosted by LibertyNet. Some have
registered virtual domain names, but most of the organizations still have
tilde names.

At 04:34 PM 10/20/98 -0400, Diane K. Kovacs wrote:
>Dear Nettrainers,
>I've been convinced that someone is in fact using the subscriber list to
>spam other subscribers.  People who have never posted are getting the spam
>in question. I've set the list to Review=Owner, which means only Jim and I
>can retrieve the list of subscribers now.  If you need to check your own
>subscription options please ask me and I'll send them to you.  Let's get
>back to the topic of Internet Training now?
>
>I'd like to readdress an issue that we've discussed before.  How to teach
>people how to evaluate Internet resources.  Specifically, I've encountered
>several students who've been told by some Internet trainer's (unnamed) that
>you can judge whether information on a Web page is of high quality
>(factual, timely, relatively unbiased) by looking at the domain names...I
>was told that one trainer told one of my students:  .edu is good .com is
>bad and that anything with ~  in it is bad.  What are your opinions on
>this?  Mine immediate reaction is to say that the domain name of a site in
>no way can be used as a guide to evaluate the content of a site.  Am I
>wrong?  What is the reality from your points of view?
>
>Cordially,
>Diane
>Nettrain Editor
>