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Hey Jim! Wheres' my cut? M:) On Wed, 20 May 1998, Michael Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > Has anyone nominated Jim for the Internet Kooks list, this year? > > He's not a kook. He is an agent provocateur who is paid by the telco > industry to disrupt Internet activities. The monopoly telcos want to > be able to show that the Internet folks are not capable of running the > network and that government regulation is necessary. They like a > regulatory regime because they have several generations of experience in > manipulating government bureaucracies to their own advantage and the > Internet currently lacks this. > > Fleming is a very sharp-witted psych-ops who can appear perfectly rational > when it suits his goals. When he acts like a kook he does so in order to > spark outraged outbursts from his Internet guru audience but is careful > that a non-technical observer would se no cause for such an outburst in > Jim's statements. His goal is to methodically discredit everyone who has > any significant role in the design, management and operation of the > Internet and he is paid handsomely enough by the monopoly telco industry > that he can afford to buy a yacht and spend many months of the year living > in a foreign tax haven in the British Virgin Islands. > > -- > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: [email protected] > http://www.memra.com - *check out the new name & new website* > > >
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