OK, Randy, I have some bad news for an irrelevant fantasy there are a lot of people dreaming ... and it grows - every day.
cool. then use your other email address on all internet subscriptions and mail.
I just wonder at what stage some peopel are going to realise the Internet is a global medium with a lot of free range scope and not a DO IT MY WAY OR IT WON"T WORK BECAUSE I SAY SO medium.
can't speak for others, but for me it was probably a decade or two before you discovered the net. yes, i have been on the net for a wee bit. same goes for many of the other folk for whom you seem to hold such paranoia. the actual folk who cooperatively advance the network call the process "rough consensus and running code." being an engineer (well part time at least) i judge by results. those results are allowing you to tell us about your little fantasy. you're welcome. but don't expect grownups to take you seriously.
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i would append the analogous one for the real internet, but sending many tens of megabytes of data in email is generally not appreciated, especially as there are folk with expensive connectivity on this list. as fidonet was heavily used in africa, i was involved there for some years, gating it to/from (what became) the internet. the same silliness about who 'controlled' the namespace occurred there. the demagogues of democracy never got anywhere except creating a lot of loud noise and giving an exceedingly vocal very small minority with too much time on their hands something to do. and those folk turned out to be far less democratic than the worst of the 'old guard', having a great time stabbing each other in the back etc. history has this thing about repeating itself. randy -------- Logged at Sat Aug 29 04:49:09 MET DST 1998 ---------