Posted by richard on 10/11/06 20:50

"techfiddle" <renaissance@australiamail.com> wrote in message
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> yubbers9@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that WebRing is requiring that people PAY
>> to have pages on it, I need a place to move my 40+ pages
>> i.e another Web ring system.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a good alternative?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
> Yubbers:
>
> I actually didn't *know* that WebRing was requiring people to pay! I
> had 39 rings on there which I had carefully and lovingly tended for
> about 15 years. I quit them because they were so uunconscionably rude
> to me. After 30+ years of being online, and a stint--a long time ago
> as a graphics designer at IBM -- the last thing I can tolerate is some
> snotty IT staff person, usually barely out of their teens -- talking to
> me as if I were some blithering idiot. Now I guess I can understand
> why they were doing that. I'm not the only long-term person who quit
> them, either (besides you).

You were online in 1975? I dont think so.
Unless you mean the old ARPA net?
Or maybe some military intranet?

Ask a PhD one simple question and he'll give you a 300 page disertation.
Ask a 12 year old the same question and he'll give you the proper answer in
one sentence.

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