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Re: [cobalt-users] KakWorm



Doesn't ISP stand for Internet Service Provider? Correct if I'm wrong Jeff
Lasman but don't they provide Internet Services?


Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] KakWorm


> Dom Latter wrote:
>
> > No, it should be dissed because it's a sorry excuse for an ISP.
>
> AOL is NOT an ISP.  They're an ISP-Wannabe.  The fact that the 'most
> everyone, including the press, confuses them (a content provider) with
> an ISP is very scary and says a lot about what's wrong with the
> "popular" Internet culture today.
>
> > Seems that they have an automatic filter
> > which quietly bit-buckets any e-mail that does not meet certain
> > unspecified criteria.
>
> I know some of those criteria.  What do you say we reconfigure the
> Cobalt list-server so that none of the posts will make it through to
> anyone using AOL <wry grin>.
>
> Nah, I wouldn't do that.
>
> Jeff
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