[260] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sat Mar 2 16:11:15 1991
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 91 15:57:45 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: emv@ox.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Edward Vielmetti's message of Sat, 02 Mar 91 15:33:10 EST <m0jCdGQ-0003jHC@crane.aa.ox.com>
What's pointless is the underlying assumption that someone is in
charge of all this who, if simply convinced of the goodness of the
idea, would proceed to make listservs on the internet a policy.
The wonderful thing about mailing lists etc is that someone can post
something like "why isn't this stuff done thus and such way!?" and
then people will play the roles and bicker either side of the concept,
as if they were standing in front of some benevolent judge or
legislature.
Someone claimed they were about to post software for simulating
listserv behavior under unix/internet I assume, in alt.sources (this
comment will no doubt tempt someone to post "why only unix? the whole
world is not unix!" as if there were someone here who could say "hey,
you're right! we'll go order them to extend their software base!")
Anyhow, perhaps the mere non-existence of the software is the cause
and not any policy nor intentions (even if they do exist.)
-Barry Shein
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