Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Flushot-Plus protect against Virus & Trojan programs
Message-ID: <10723@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 5 May 88 13:43:22 GMT
References: <7714@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1414@hoqax.UUCP> <897@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <742NU098674@NDSUVM1> <541@csccat.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <541@csccat.UUCP> loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes:

| 	Surely a better way to serve the PC user is for them to get 
| 	together (stop laughing) and form their own international,
| 	reliable, and convenient network. Naturally, everyone would
| 	work together and freely contribute their time, efforts, and
| 	cash to make an even better net. All users would instantly
| 	agree on protocols, compaction, archivers, services, etc.

  Once upon a time there was a net called FIDOnet. It was just about as
you describe. It was run by anarchy; if you didn't like another sysop
you just didn't feed him. If what you wanted was worth it, you paid the
phone costs. If you wanted to connect to other nets, you did.

  Now it's organized. People at "the top" make policy, rules, and
changes. If you belong to another net (say AlterNet) FIDO sysops are
told to shun you. I don't want to get into a major discussion here, but
anarchy works quite well, thank you.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me