[3019] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stargates (In Defense of J.F.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Tue May 28 00:24:05 1996
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>,
"'Nathan Stratton'"
<nathan@netrail.net>
Cc: "'Dorian Kim'" <dorian@cic.net>, Tim Bass <nanog@linux.silkroad.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 23:16:36 -0500
On Monday, May 27, 1996 7:13 PM, Nathan Stratton[SMTP:nathan@netrail.net] wrote:
@ On Mon, 27 May 1996, Jim Fleming wrote:
@
@ > On Sunday, May 26, 1996 10:50 AM, Dorian Kim[SMTP:dorian@cic.net] wrote:
@ > @ On Sun, 26 May 1996, Tim Bass wrote:
@ > @
@ > @ > Excuse me just a little, but I would like to follow-up on the
@ > @ > Bush-o-Gram with regard to Jim Fleming and others whom Randy
@ > @ > would love to silence in this world.
@ > @
@ >
@ > I am not sure why people on the Internet want to silence people.
@ > I thought that the Internet was born with a basic goal of breaking
@ > down centralized control over information flow and the censorship
@ > that always goes with power being concentrated in a few people's
@ > hands (or minds)...
@
@ Humm, I don't think ARPA cared about breaking down centralized control
@ over information flow and censorship. They wanted to connect DOD computers
@ together and could care less about most of the things the internet is used
@ for today.
@
@ Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
I stand corrected...I should have said..."corruption" not "censorship"...
--
Jim Fleming
UNETY Systems, Inc.
Naperville, IL
e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
