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- From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.internet
- Subject: Re: NYC INTERNET ACCESS
- Message-ID: <C1HJ5L.1GG@panix.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 23:41:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.224319.24308@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <ZbKZrA-ABh107h@carlos> <C1G9yJ.1M9@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan26.230546.10092@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 47
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- In <1993Jan26.230546.10092@panix.com> alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen) writes:
-
- >andras@well.sf.ca.us (Andrew Raskin) writes:
- >>in reply to what I posted I received 5 letters from current subscribers of
- >>alexis agreeing with what I had said. The only one that didn't request to be
- >>kept anonymous is printed here.
-
- >Hm. Four letters from people who asked to be kept anonymous? That's peculiar.
- >If they agree with what you said, why are they still using panix? And why do
- >they care if I see their notes? To be blunt, I think you're a liar. (On that
- >note, I'd still like to know what name you used when you had an account
- >here and (as you claimed in your first note) paid us money.)
-
- The thing that amazes me is these four nameless, faceless people never
- surface in the local panix newsgroups with comments on the order of
- magnitude of Andrew Ruskin... There's ALWAYS dialog about "problems" --
- Some of the problems, albeit a low percentage, a bona fide system problems
- and a promptly (IMHO) addressed by the support crew at panix. Most of the
- "problems" are user-related -- "how do I do this?" type questions ranging
- from very inexperienced users just venturing in UNIX to the highly
- technical. And you know what? I haven't seen one question that went
- unanswered...
-
- I'm just miffed at Andrew Raskin's comments. But, then again Timothy Leary
- sums it up -- "Fiction versus non-fiction isn't significant. It's all
- fiction, all just viewpoints. What is history but differing perspectives
- about times past?"
-
- If we don't digress into the past and focus on the present, I think there's
- some great things going on at panix! Alexis mentioned some of the upgrades
- to the system, but he forgot to mention:
-
- o The panix.hunt team won the January Internet Hunt!
- o We're also a bunch of social animals -- triple the number of people
- expected showed up at the panix Christmas party. There's another
- party in the plans in the next few weeks...
-
- So... Bottom line is Andrew Ruskin isn't quite in touch with the present
- and seems to have NO IDEA what the panix system is today.
-
- That's my two cents.
-
- --
- See the happy moron, ... Clay Irving personal: clay@panix.com
- He doesn't give a damn, ... New York, NY work: clay@garpac.com
- I wish I were a moron, ....................................................
- My God! perhaps I am! -- Eugenics Review July 1929
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