🚀 go-pugleaf

Bill Chow <chow@torfree.net> quoted:
>|   Toronto Star
>|   
>|   October 17, 1996 
>|   
>|   Web leaves trail of victims
>|   
>|[...]
>|   
>|   The Toronto FreeNet, launched in 1994 after numerous delays, is
>|   reportedly teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Although technically
>|   still the largest ISP in Toronto, with 38,000 members, TFN has run out
>|   of funds.
>|   
>|   One of the problems faced by TFN and other freenets is that they were
>|   set up to offer ``shell'' access to the Internet rather than
>|   point-to-point protocol (PPP). Thus, users faced an unintuitive
>|   text-based, command line interface to the Net at the same time as the
>|   easy-to-use, graphically inviting World Wide Web was coming into the
>|   picture.
>|   
>|   In a last ditch effort to stay afloat, TFN is moving to PPP, but some
>|   insiders say it would be too costly to upgrade equipment that was not
>|   designed to handle PPP. They are reportedly considering a plan to sell
>|   PPP access for about $30 a year, which is still considerably cheaper
>|   than the $300 or so charged by most ISPs.

Bruce Becker <bdb@GTS.Net> wrote:
>
>	This Robert Wright apparently got his "facts" from
>	mishearing the discussions at a previous board meeting.
>	He did not, as far as I am aware, check them with the
>	TFN president etc. before publishing his inaccuracies
>	nor did he give any indication beforehand that he was
>	about to do so.  It makes me wonder why I bother to
>	read newspapers if this is typical of the reliability
>	of their contents...
>

 Maybe they are aware that
 the current "President" has 
 tendered their resignation,
 along with 70% of the Board.
 That the Toronto Freenet is
 in tatters and fully expects
 anything to come from them
 to be entirely biassed.

 PPP along with the graphical
 user interface I have for so long
 advocated are now the standard
 that is allowing millions of
 regular citizans onto the Internet.
 Granted in a form I did not anticipate.
 PPP is the standard the Toronto
 Freenet will adopt with the next
 Board of Directors if I have any
 influence at all over things. Or
 it will collapse in a heap.

 The day of text interfaces is
 over. The people once behind
 TFN lacked the vision to move and
 grow and see the wider picture
 both technologically and ethically.
 If TFN survives a year from now
 it will be a very differant beast
 from the rotten, mediocre mess
 it is now. Sorry. That's life.

 Peace.

 Bob Allisat                           tor@wtv.net
 Director,                           (416)588-0670
 World Televirtual Network      http://www.wtv.net
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