- From: Alexander, Larry <lalexander@acad.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 15:28:05 PST
- To: www-talk@www10.w3.org
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Fwd: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT Author: rfelix@netcom.com at ~Internet_Mail Date: 3/31/95 2:57 PM > Just wait. It's going to get much worse before it gets any better. > The Internet has, until now, been the haunt mainly of academics, re- > search groups, and bright young university students. > > Notice how many of the nutty postings come from .com, .aol, etc. ad- > dresses.... > > Richard Goerwitz > goer@midway.uchicago.edu > >>er...uh..excuse me???? >> >>A huge percentage of the .com hierarchy are commercial hardware >>and/or software development organizations in the world...While some >>commercial service providers have .com addresses, there are >>thousands or hundreds of thousands of engineers, scientists, system >>administrators etc, etc who post from these accounts...I would hate >>to see a couple of dingy posts make anyone think that those posting >>from this type of account are less than credible, it just aint so... >> >>rf rf, I couldn't agree more. I know some very high-level people who use <gulp> Prodigy and the like for various reasons, such as the access # is a local call. Please don't condemn us .com folks. Larry lalexander@acad.com wuapub@netcom.com lalex@ix.netcom.com lalex@aol.com jajk91a@prodigy.com
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