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Subject:Re: What IS is with people from America On-Line? From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:07:51 -0700
Patrick O'Connell said:
> AOLers (people connecting to Internet resources via America On-Line) have
> a bad reputation among more experienced Net users, and this guy is a
> REALLY good example of why. Not to lump in anyone non-clueless folks here
> from AOL! By no means -- I'm not saying all AOL Net users are clueless,
> just seems like the majority of them are. OK, "a great many" of them are.
> Enough that it's quite noticeable.
> PatO'
> titanide -at- micro -dot- org
Welcome to the new -ism: addressism. It rages all over the Internet.
Pat's opinion is shared by many people. In addition to AOLer =
clueless, some people assume anyone posting from an .edu account must
be 18. Other people have other ideas about other providers. Netcom
users used to be thought of as weenies, because of being UNIX-based
with little support. None of it makes much more sense than racism or
sexism or any other -ism does.
Me, I try to listen to the message of the writer instead of the
message of the ISP.
