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From: alain@elevia.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: The UUCP Project's problems -- another case of big-site elitism?
Summary: small is beautiful
Keywords: reality real sane reason small
Message-ID: <11@elevia.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 14:01:39 GMT
References: <dq9qJ#4Vytz5=eric@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: alain@elevia.UUCP (Super user)
Organization: William Alain Simon
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	In article <dq9qJ#4Vytz5=eric@snark.UUCP>
	eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> [ ... much deleted... ]
>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?
> [ ... much deleted... ]
	the sugar daddy bit is right on.  Let's not get p..... off at
	those who have one, though.  They are what keeps our hobby,
	and our business, alive and growing.  You'll find elitists
	in any group of people.  But they are also surrounded by real
	human beings, whom we can talk to.  As to domain addressing
	I just wish someone would explain it without relying on all
	of the existing addressing scheme vocabulary, which is just
	as strange and meaningless to the uninitiated.

>      Eric S. Raymond                  (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
					not so mad!
					but the mastermind bit is :-]

thank you very much for articulating these ideas so well,

Alain

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