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[Business as usual here on the net. Here, we have the elite of the
internet casting their judgement upon those new people which they
perceive as lesser individuals for some reason, usually connected
to some obscure notion of what a clue is and what people should 
know instead of what they do know. 

Naturally, this brings out the best in me.]

chip@unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>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.

And what, pray tell, can anyone contribute to the internet on AOL? 
Aren't you blaming 3.5 million (is that figure right) for the actions
of a provider? 

Did you ever think that maybe some of these people wouldn't be net
vampires if they weren't ostracized so intensely and so often? 

>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.

Did you ask if this person COULD do their own? Are you aware that not
a lot of people know how to run an ISP or manage mail gateways? 

>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.

For the record, this isn't about the gateway anymore. It's about the
professed netiquitte everyone is supposed to have and how that seems
to supplant the regular ol' fashioned politeness some of us were
raised with.

Geez, the person just wants to communicate with others.  Why are you
and your ilk (of which I am sadly a part) trying to control this so
much?
-- 
Dave Hayes -- Institutional NETworks - Section 394 -- JPL/NASA - Pasadena CA
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