On 01/18/00, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
We need a fresh approach, probably not a technical approach.
This has held true for some years now: technology (filters of various types) in the short term, legislation in the medium term, and education in the long term.
And that's one reason they tend to get verbally vicious when you question their sacred cows, so you're distracted (or disgusted) from noting that they're just armchair quarterbacks.
That's a good point, actually. Until you've had to sit there on the phone and make polite noises while somebody's sweet grandmother takes out her technology-fearing frustration on you because she can't get her $20/month dialup to work, you really don't understand the consumer ISP industry. Not to say that people who haven't done that aren't able to be extremely clueful -- quite the contrary, there are quite a few people who /have/ done that and don't have two clues to rub together -- but it helps put things in perspective, and perspective is one thing we geeks have trouble with. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "I, Foo Bar, leader of the Usenet High Council and lord of all I | | survey, do hereby order you to destroy any trace of the user Spam | | Baz, hereafter to be referred to as 'pud.'" -- Paul Phillips | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----