[TheForge] off-topic: lie posted to al.crafts.blacksmith

[David R. Crowell]

My four word response as to why I am not worried even if it is true "signal
to noise ratio".

It takes me a significant portion of my on-line time to pick outy the good
stuff from the crap just in my own surfing and e-mail, now immagine somebody
else trying to do it..... for the whole internet!

----- Original Message -----
From: Terry L. Ridder <terrylr@blauedonau.com>
To: <theforge@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] off-topic: lie posted to al.crafts.blacksmith


> hello;
>
> because i am part of the 'friendly neighbor isp'.
> this fud and distrust takes a toll on the people.
> i am guessing but around 2 hours a day is spent
> explaining why this is a lie to end-users. that is
> roughly 10 hours a week. that is 10 hours that did
> not go into making the network more secure and keeping
> the barbarians at the gates.
>
> it also breeds distrust between end-users and the isp.
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Demon Buddha wrote:
>