[382] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: a strategic plan for farnet (and you)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Thu Mar 14 20:02:35 1991
To: BRIAN KAHIN <KAHIN@HULAW1.HARVARD.EDU>
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 14 Mar 91 18:13:00 -0500.
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 19:47:36 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
> righteous offense...derogatory conclusion...glee...
> you had discovered...arrogant and mindless..unaccomplished networks.
> if you had read it carefully....
I had assumed when I posted the message that the esteemed members of
this list would be able to fetch the document for themselves, decide
as reasonably well informed members of the internet community what
they thought of it, and correct me if I was somewhat hyperbolic in
my description. You characterize this as "bait[ing] them with
misattributed sound bites". I take offense to this.
I maintain an extensive collection of release notes and software
announcements, archive site descriptions, abstracts of papers, et al.
which I publish on the USENET as "comp.archives". Opinionated,
strongly worded, and reasonably complete descriptions of a package or
service are the most interesting to read, and I publish them
whenever I can find them. Lame, boring mutterings are left
behind, no one has time to read them. I try to write stuff that I
would want to read later.
Do I bait people with sound bites? Well, I don't often worry about
that too much. If my descriptions are awful, or if I post awful
descriptions written by someone else, folks stop reading what I post.
So far that has not been the case.
back issues of comp.archives are available for anonymous ftp from
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.archives/
cs.toronto.edu:/indexed-archives/archive/comp.archives/
Mark Moraes at the U of Toronto provides the indexing. Compare for yourself
whether what I wrote was more than a standard deviation away from the
other opinionated but interesting references in the collection.
--
Msen Edward Vielmetti
/|--- moderator, comp.archives
emv@msen.com
