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On 01/18/00, Barry Shein <[email protected]> wrote: > We need a fresh approach, probably not a technical approach. This has held true for some years now: technology (filters of various types) in the short term, legislation in the medium term, and education in the long term. > And that's one reason they tend to get verbally vicious when you > question their sacred cows, so you're distracted (or disgusted) from > noting that they're just armchair quarterbacks. That's a good point, actually. Until you've had to sit there on the phone and make polite noises while somebody's sweet grandmother takes out her technology-fearing frustration on you because she can't get her $20/month dialup to work, you really don't understand the consumer ISP industry. Not to say that people who haven't done that aren't able to be extremely clueful -- quite the contrary, there are quite a few people who /have/ done that and don't have two clues to rub together -- but it helps put things in perspective, and perspective is one thing we geeks have trouble with. ---------========== J.D. Falk <[email protected]> =========--------- | "I, Foo Bar, leader of the Usenet High Council and lord of all I | | survey, do hereby order you to destroy any trace of the user Spam | | Baz, hereafter to be referred to as 'pud.'" -- Paul Phillips | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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