IP: more on 27 million gave up?

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:22:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Brad <bdolan () usit net>
To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>


> Date: Mon, 6



>  Dave-
>
>  I haven't given up but I have started curtailing my use of the net.
>
>  I used to subscribe to a dozen interesting lists such as yours, full of
>  lively conversation and insights. One by one they've all either fallen
>  silent or been monopolized by idiots. Yours is the last list - that I know
>  of anyway - which has survived.
>
>  There are a few interesting websites out there ("Z" magazine's on the left,
>  lewrockwell.com on the right, and antiwar.com at an undetermined point in
>  the spectrum, for example), but somehow the web-newspaper model doesn't
>  foster debate like the discussion groups (and usenet news groups) used to.
>
>  BTW, I've never liked the insecurity of the WWW / Windows/ Active-X/Java 
> gui
>  net access
>  approach but the solution to that is to keep all financial and other
>  personal data on a PC which is never connected to the net. (In the future I
>  suppose this will preclude the use of phone-home-to-Redmond Office
>  software.)
>
>  I expect I'm going to continue to need the internet in the future - for
>  routine
>  communications - but I will probably enjoy it less.
>
>  Brad