Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale

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From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:00

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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:40:52 GMT, Ian Galbraith wrote:
>
>I think you've misunderstood me. The quote is from the TV series B5, and I
>was referring to the fact that we're obviously seeing all the new Uni
>students come onto the Usenet without a clue and behaving like idiots. I
>know Usenet is a strictly text based medium and HTML only increases
>bandwidth to no good effect.

"The endless september" is the name given to it :)

It's not uni students anymore.  It's everyone who buys "the internet"
when they get a new PC.  Who thinks the web is the net, who
is using software with braindead defaults.

People who have no clue that this is a shared resource, but see
it as anything else on their PC, something they can do what
they want with.  Same as pirate software really.

Those who do own the resources will eventually have to get rather
more agressive..  I hope.

Zebee

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From: zebee@lute.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: A Touch of Strange Book Sale
Date: 1998/03/24
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