[11671] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: PC Mag Bashes Internet! Good Job!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Wed Apr 13 06:47:16 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 19:48:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: Kelly E Gibbs <kgibbs@world.std.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199404122129.AA15394@world.std.com>
Kelly, there is as much if not more trash on this highway as a regular
road. One must be selective. Given the proper knowledge of the network
and some skillfull guidance you can avoid the trash. As a whole the
Internet offers more positive than negative. People joke about the off
button on your TV, well don't forget the re-boot button on your computer.
Many valuable things are on the net. Personally I like to ask NASA people
questions. This is something as a kid I could never do. Now with this
network I can get direct answers to questions about events as they
happen. I feel thet value exceeds the trash.
$1,000 Fine for litering.
Joseph Stroup
On Tue, 12 Apr 1994, Kelly E Gibbs wrote:
>
> PC Mags attack on the Internet was long overdue. The Internet has become
> a junk yard of electronic news and mail. The information usually received
> from the Internet isn't worth reading.
>
> Once I thought the Internet would be something I could show my kids and
> let them learn from using it - however today it's filth and foul language
> idiots keep us at a distance.
>
> This is what we call the Information Superhighway has turned out to be
> a dark backroad in Mississippi. Engineers have a lot to learn from
> the Internet's mistakes, and the government really needs to regulate
> what goes on.
>
> I back the Clinton on Clipper and other issues. The internet needs
> an authority, since you people have no conception that your abusing
> the public.
>
> Thanks.
>
