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[NOISE] Re: Netscape rewards are an insult

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Thu Oct 19 20:12:47 1995

To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:03:46 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199510191722.KAA06757@jobe.shell.portal.com> from "anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com" at Oct 19, 95 10:22:40 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)

Meta-noise, but I don't plan to lose any sleep over this....

Someone writing as Alice de 'nonymous writes:
> The Netscape Navigator client was DESIGNED to be controlled remotely from
> any machine on the Internet.  This is the "flawed algorithm".  W3 was
> meant to be hypertext ... not a gateway that permits a server to deliver
> customized byte bombs down a clearcut path by remote-control. 

Maybe I'm just too sheltered. But in a couple of years on the Net, I've only
ever seen _one person_ write "W3" as an abbreviation for World Wide Web
before now.

Alice, meet Fred. Fred, meet Alice.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>

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