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1995-10-19 - [NOISE] Re: Netscape rewards are an insult

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From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
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Message ID: <199510192203.SAA10579@opine.cs.umass.edu>
Reply To: <199510191722.KAA06757@jobe.shell.portal.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-10-19 22:04:19 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 15:04:19 PDT

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From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 95 15:04:19 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: [NOISE] Re: Netscape rewards are an insult
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Meta-noise, but I don't plan to lose any sleep over this....

Someone writing as Alice de 'nonymous writes:
> The Netscape Navigator client was DESIGNED to be controlled remotely from
> any machine on the Internet.  This is the "flawed algorithm".  W3 was
> meant to be hypertext ... not a gateway that permits a server to deliver
> customized byte bombs down a clearcut path by remote-control. 

Maybe I'm just too sheltered. But in a couple of years on the Net, I've only
ever seen _one person_ write "W3" as an abbreviation for World Wide Web
before now.

Alice, meet Fred. Fred, meet Alice.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>

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