Bill, We may be in the same chapter, but I think we are on different pages. Keep in mind that the difference between an anarchist and a freedom fighter is often the perception of the viewer and a matter of symantics. I am not endorsing all of the rhetoric, but the intelligent reader will see substance where it really exists. Gene... +++++ Hi Bill Lovell, you wrote on 6/20/99 6:45:34 PM: >At 07:18 PM 6/20/99 -0500, you wrote: >Bill, > >I agree completely that there must be standards, guidelines (some even >strict), rules and regulations. Utter chaos will gain us nothing but a >technological Tower of Babel. > >However, many a standard has been documented post facto. > >Gene: > >True, true. So let's "document" .com, .org, etc., and get on with it. > >IETF RFC's are >not all visionary conceptual documents that foresaw the need for a given >technology or methodology. Many (if not most) have been developed due to >input from the "soft underbelly" to which you refer. > >Ah, yes, but such input most productively consists of something other >than chanting the "rights" mantra -- a refuge of the intellectually >destitute >who have nothing else to contribute. > >Regulation and control for their own sake is socialism. > >And who would say they would not be? Not me. Been there; >seen it, don't like it. :-) > >And by the way, Mr. Ed Gerck, you missed your chance: down >in Eugene, Oregon yesterday, a group of anarchists, in their quest >for a more "simple life," set out to tear down our technological >world by trashing windows, hammering passing vehicles, stopping >main artery traffic, etc., etc., until finally the police had stood by >long enough and started making arrests. It is the anarchists who >make regulation and control necessary in order that the system >can survive, not the other way around. > >Bill Lovell +++++++++++++++++++++ I'm very happy @.HOME Gene Marsh president, anycastNET Incorporated
