Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Face it, Abernathy is clueless (was Re: JSC phone ripoff Message-ID: <1990Dec10.042944.1860@lavaca.uh.edu> Date: 10 Dec 90 04:29:44 GMT References: Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) Distribution: na Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 37 Abernathy really makes me ashamed to say I'm a degreed journalist and that I've done no small amount of reporting... In article writes: >To Joe Abernathy (the Chronicle reporter) >and to the AP reporter, I must say that I'm still waiting for the facts. I talked to Abernathy on the phone soon after his big "porn on the internet" story. I tried to explain to him several times that USENET is *not* the Internet, and that they aren't even the same sort of thing. (One's a network, one's information.) And he said something to the effect of "yes, but they are they same thing, really." He went on to say that "he was on the Internet". Well, chron.com is a uucp-only site to uunet, and Abernathy has an 8bit apple that somehow gets mail via the pro-something network (which has a gateway to USENET and email)... I explained that he was not on "the Internet", and told him what the Internet was (again, including mention of being able to ping, telnet and ftp), and he still insisted he was on the Internet and that the Internet was the same as USENET. Abernathy should stick to writing 8bit Apple articles for whatever magazine he used to write for and let the *real* reporters handle the news stories. Especially ones involving any understanding of computing... umount ~jet/soapbox -- J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Mangler - UH Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 Skate (UNIX || AmigaDos) "This meme's for you..."