J C Lawrence wrote:
>>And it's all about how you feel, right?
>
> Umm, of course. I run mail systems. Was there ever any question that
> it was ever otherwise for any independent postmaster?
Sure. For me, it's about how my users feel. I work for them, not the
other way around.
>>I'd rather deal with the "stupidity" and "sheeplike-ness" of the
>>hundreds of millions on the net today than be stuck in the ghetto we
>>were in when there were fewer than a million of us here.
>
> I like both for very different reasons. The populist 'net of today is
> not an inherently Good or Bad thing -- mostly, like humanity, it just
> is. There was and remains much good to say about that ghetto of 15 and
> more years ago. Not all of the qualities that have been lost since then
> were good ones, but many were and I do regret their loss.
They are so outweighed for me by what we have given to those millions by
"dumbing down" the net that I don't waste the brain cells to miss them.
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