Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!killer!csccat!loci
From: loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Flushot-Plus protect against Virus & Trojan programs
Message-ID: <569@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 88 18:59:26 GMT
References: <7714@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1414@hoqax.UUCP> <897@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM> <742NU098674@NDSUVM1> <541@csccat.UUCP> <10723@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: just post it, we all want a good laugh
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas.
Lines: 46
Keywords: Just as I thought
Summary: Aha, the worm turns

In article <10723@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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.

	That does seem to be great: black-ball people, refuse feeds, etc.
	Just the mentality I'd expect from this group. The one good
	thing about it is that you pay your own way.
>
>  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.

	Shun others!! Amazing. You have proven my point to a tee.
	Usenet doesn't do any of that: they even let you slimers post
	your binaries here, though they would rather you didn't.
	They make polite requests, get ignored, and tolerate it.

	I especially like the way that the way that the fido-sites
	spool up everybodies mail and read it. I suppose they can't
	get any of their own. That's really low, but hey, if you
	like it so much, WHY ARE YOU HERE? You prove my point to a tee.

>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

	Yes, it shows. This group is just like the single-minded
	toys that ibm passes off as computers. I chuckle every time
	somebody posts a problem with compatibility cuz you've
	let ibm paint you into a corner and you're just too stubborn
	to admit it.

	Anyway, keep those flames coming: some of them are better than
	the comics. And others make no sense at all. But I love it.
	Without these comp.ibm groups, I wouldn't be able to shoot
	fish in a barrel.