At 6:26 AM -0500 1/30/1997, Dr. Manion wrote:
>ROFL!
>Again, I see that AOL doesn't want to take responsibility. "Well, if
>you were as big as us -- you couldn't do anything either!" ROFL!
I'm saying that it is acknowledged as a very tough problem, and
by a lot of people I consider to be fairly knowledgable in the area.
Some of those people work at AOL, many don't. When there is good
consensus that a problem is hard, no amount of whining on your part
is going to help solve it. You've got to make an actual
contribution. I haven't seen that from you.
I guarantee you that AOL will implement whatever solutions we can
to this problem as soon as we can, but that means that the solutions
have to be invented by someone, and although we've got some pretty
sharp people, we certainly don't have the corner on experts. As soon
as solutions (partial or otherwise) present themselves (or as soon as
we can come up with them on our own), we'll feed them to our
developers for implementation. It's that simple.
But, we're not Microsoft. We can't buy the entire Internet, and
declare all of it's problems solved overnight because you will now
only be allowed to connect using Microsoft products. It just doesn't
work that way, and if that's the kind of magical overnight solution
you want for your problems, please go dream somewhere else. The rest
of us have real work to do.
>Again, illusions of gradeur. You assume AOL is "needed". It's not.
>The Internet was here before AOL and it will be here after after AOL
>follows the way of Prodigy, Genie and others.
AOL may or may not survive. Whether it does is irrelevant. We
are here now, and the whole Internet has some very hard problems to
solve, and since we're the biggest kid on the block, that means we
have more of that problem to solve than anyone else, but that doesn't
mean that we have any more answers to that problem than anyone else.
The whole Internet community is going to have to solve this
problem, whether we can find a solution for our part of it or not.
If the whole Internet community (AOL included) can come up with some
improvements, I'm sure that one way or another, they will get shared
and copied around so that everyone can benefit (reverse engineer
them, if you have to).
If you want to be a part of this solution, please do so.
Otherwise, you're part of the problem, and you should get out of the
way.
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