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In article <45efns$p1h@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
	Cyronwode <cyronwode@aol.com> wrote:
>University of Texas (cs.utexas.edu) Discrimination Charged
>
>The following exchange of e-mail exposes misuse of public funds at a State
>University. It concerns all 3.5 million AOL users and countless others who
>post to the internet from commercial domains. 

You know what really stinks about this new information superduper
highway.

No....it's not the clueless newbies who spam all over incarnation
because they don't know how to crosspost properly.

Neither is it the clueless newbies who repost private email without
permission.

What really sucks is the "information consumers" who pay their $20/month
and feel the world owes them something in return.  These are the
net.vampires that just suck and suck and contribute nothing.

The entire AOL.COM phenomena is symbolic of this whole thing.  I
remember back when GNN did a feature article on the AOL Gopher server,
replete with screen shots.  It's a good thing they gave screen shots,
because there was no other way to see the AOL gopher.  AOL, it seems,
is willing to foist tens of thousands of people onto our servers, but
lord forbid they should provide anything in return.

But that's ancient history right?  No, not really.  Today, WWW has
pretty much supplanted Gopher, and AOL continues to contribute zilch
to the net.  Sure, now there is a www.aol.com, but it's nothing but
a one-page advertisement for their services.

So, now we have an AOL user whining that the utexas email gateway, a
service offered to UT users, and with informal and unofficial access
granted to the public, whining that they don't like it.

Well...tough roogies.  This is the Internet.  If you don't like it,
then do your own.  Oh dear...I forgot...you and your ilk want to do
nothing more than consume down the Internet with a mouseclick.
Never mind.

For the record, the utexas email gateway is operated with an extremely
high level of diligence and professionalism.  A lot of effort has
gone into preventing this service from becoming a launching point
for net.abuse.

So here's what I have to say about this whole controversy:  Atta boy,
Fletcher!  Keep up the great work.  I and many others appreciate
everything you do for Usenet and the Internet.

Disclaimer:  No, not every AOL.COM user is a twit.  In fact, some of
the coolest folks on my mailing lists are AOL users.  (Most of them,
however, seem to move off once they decide they don't need the training
wheels any longer.)  It just seems, however, that AOL attracts more
than their fair share of twits.
-- 
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