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Subject:What IS is with people from America On-Line? From:Patrick O'Connell <titanide -at- MICRO -dot- ORG> Date:Mon, 11 Sep 1995 10:04:09 -0400
Nothing peeves me more, with respect to a mailing list, than what I just
saw from Bob Blake (ReBlake -at- AOL -dot- COM). Bitching that he hasn't been
removed, having asked twice, when he's talking to the list, not the
listserver! Had Mr. Blake perhaps learned just a LITTLE more about the
medium he was connecting himself to BEFORE subscribing to techwr-l, he'd
know better. Maybe.
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.
