From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 15 17:19:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02402 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:19:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02396 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA06074; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:18:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA11840; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:18:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Kevin Eliuk cc: John Fieber , Michael Smith , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:21:54 PDT." Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:18:50 -0400 Message-ID: <11838.866420330@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kevin Eliuk wrote in message ID : > Couldn't agree more. I have only been using the internet since > September '96 and found myself quickly getting disgusted with the > over-commercialization of the entire web. Personally I believe the > whole hype is going to go the same way as CB did in the 70's and > Billy&Co. are going to have wasted a whole lot of man hours on making > the Internet user (un)friendly ;) Has anyone bitched at Paramount for the good areas of the star trek web page being accessible to MSN members only? That, IMHO, is about as low as you can go :-( Not only will it likely not work with Netscape on non M$ platforms, but you need to pay M$ to get at it. So much for the ``information superhighway'' ... it's only a highway if you are driving a car made by M$ these days. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info