[9061] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: sleaze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rose Marie Holt)
Wed Dec 15 14:43:23 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 11:40:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Rose Marie Holt <rmholt@u.washington.edu>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: tully@cscns.com, postman@lists.psi.com, bachmann@austin.ibm.com,
In-Reply-To: <199312150329.AA23300@world.std.com>
That's why you all should tackle it - it's a tough problem with a high
demand for solutions and you all are better qualified to solve it than a
bunch of biddies in Texas (a la textbook selection for public schools)
>
> Look, I'd love to find a solution and it has got me thinking a little
> about it. It's just hard, I really/really/really understand the milieu
> probably better than all but a coupla dozen folks on this whole
> planet, I run one of the largest and certainly the oldest public
> access internet systems in, er, um, the third planet from the sun.
>
> But it ain't easy, it isn't even clear who is qualified to do this (I
> mean, you wouldn't trust me personally to edit kids' school textbooks
> would you?), and the worst thing we can do is go thrusting about (hmm,
> perhaps not the exact right image) looking for someone to stick the
> whole problem onto.
RM Holt
