From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 10 11:24:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04598 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04593 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id OAA09462; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:24:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:24:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199708101824.OAA09462@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com CC: pechter@lakewood.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199708100625.XAA01142@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Sat, 09 Aug 1997 23:25:49 -0700) Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>> Hang on a second, UUNet is the Internet 8) >>> They really have forgotten their roots and humble start. >>> Boy have they become a real Pain In The Ass since they dropped the UUCP >>> business to small sites and started hanging out with the likes of >>> Microsoft 8-) >> Well, the Internet has changed from its humble beginnings as the >> old UUCP net, and ARPANET. Used to it was ham radio, then BBS's, then >> the net. What bastions for hobbyists are there now, something where >> the popularity doesn't make me sick after fifteen minutes of use? > Chaos will rule in the Internet however when it affects my inbox thats > a whole different ball game. > Besides, if we don't stop this popular new trend you can kiss > global public e-mail good bye . As the days go by , I am leaning > more and more to simply shutdown my e-mail subsystem and only let > very few entries in. So if the spammers win rest assure that many > will do as I am thinking of. No, we will simply stop using public media such as the Usenet, and never give out our snailmail addresses. -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped