On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 09:11, Kevin McLauchlan wrote: <snip a bunch>
'Windoze Users' and shall be shunned by all who honor the good and noble traditions which created the Internet.
The good and noble traditions that CREATED the Internet? Well, let me see if I can recall... Oh yes... war. Several laboratories and research centers in the US military and weapons-research area were linked together, mainframe to mainframe. Does the name DARPA ring a bell? Then, they hooked up a few university computer centers to their little network, so that they could keep the research and information trading briskly among the military researchers and the academics.
The network proved to have utility for those reasons and for other reasons, so it gradually expanded to include other institutions of higher learning. Then, it just sat there for a while, with not a whole lot of improvement, until business came along. Then, it took off until it became a household word.
Is that the "noble tradition" of which you speak? I'm nearly 50. I was in university computing rooms in the early Seventies, and I've been associated with computers and comms all my working life. In other words, I was there for most of the life of the internet. Somehow, I seemed to have missed the "noble traditions".
Comments? Rebuttals?
Amen to that. As someone who once had an email address that ended in .arpa all I can say to those bemoaning top posters is to get a life. Both methods have their advantages, disadvantages and uses. Paul