Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ames!think!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: The UUCP Project's problems -- another case of big-site elitism? Message-ID: <1102@maynard.BSW.COM> Date: 31 Aug 88 17:28:03 GMT References: Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Organization: The Boston Software Works, Inc. Lines: 24 In article eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: }It's time for a reality check, here. *Most* of the net is composed of machines }for which email & USENET support is casual or nonexistent at best. And that }proportion is *increasing* as more personal machines (like mine) enter the net. }Do we really *want* to see this majority left behind? Yes. }Like 90% of the net, I'm still plugging along with my tiny disk, my UUCP-only }mailers and my single 1200-baud dialin -- and my question is, why does the }brave new world the domainist advocates and the UUCP Project people have }been pushing have so little room for *us* in it? My system is wimpier than yours -- it's a DEC Rainbow, for God's sake, a pathetic little 4.77 MHz 8088 with a 70MB disk. Installing smail took, maybe, two hours total. OK, I paid $150 for a domain a year ago, but now that the .US option is available for free... what's the big deal? All you need is some free software that's trivial to install and that can run on one of the most pathetic little machines ever built, a free domain registration, and you're in business. If that's too much for you to handle, the net probably won't be missing much by your absence. -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. Internet: campbell@bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846