Bill Cheek writes in a message to Scott Christensen
 BC>> Fido can't even keep things current.........
  SC> Is it better on the internet?
 BC>  What is "it"? 
Keeping things current.  How many different browsers and markup languages and 
"Java"s and such are there?  You need a hard disk full of software just to 
access the different web and internet sites and use all of the different 
nonstandard "features" of each site.
  
 BC> But it differs from a normal entity in that there is no hierarchy; 
 BC> no rules-levying body; nothing to keep current. 
And therefore, *nothing* is current.
  
 BC> You are, of course, free (and invited) to check the foregoing 
 BC> numbers for yourself,
I will not dispute the numbers.  Big deal.  I'd rather have quality than 
quantity any day.  And yes I am saying that's the tradeoff.
  
Bill, I'm not going to continue this thread.  It is not an admission of 
anything, I'm just tired of it.  And I'm a bit tired of the people carrying 
it on.
See you later when you start talking about scanners.
 
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