the internet is the ham radio for the '00s. it's also the combination of gutenberg and luther for the '00s. Remember where the simple nailing of theses did for us way back when... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:54 PM To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AOL's view of the Net versus the rest On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:33:50 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It's like radio: Some people are content to tune in to their favorite FM > station and listen to the Top 40 or "easy listening" music; whereas others > prefer to get ham radio licenses and explore the medium to its fullest. Interesting analogy.. > As long as there are still ways to get the "raw" connections that I prefer, > I don't really care if most people are satisfied with AOL and its > clones--that's their choice. Well.. obviously you're not a ham operator - most of the ones I know are quite zealous about complaining when another operator does anything out of spec.. ;) It's interesting that the major complaint from the non-AOL crowd isn't about AOL's existence, it's about interoperability problems. Quite similar to the average ham operator.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
