From John S Russell : neutopia@titan.oit.umass.edu (Doctress Neutopia) wrote: > We experienced soulful connections with one another > and established meaningful friendships. Isn't that what life is > all about? Isn't that really what the Net is all about? No. The Net is about information. It's about flaming. It's about poking fun at people whose bishop recently died, or who stutter. It's about the sheer joy of finding a not-yet-closed-down WWW site with amazing JPEGS of people fucking 'Pug' dogs while wearing Richard Nixon masks. It's about lengthy, abuse-filled arguments. "Kirk!" "Picard!" "No!" "Yep!" "Prat!" "Geek!". It's about Turks. It's about Armenians. It's about Choads, Anvils, Bacon, Morrisey, Kibo, Global Killfiles and complete gits like Richard Lee. If you think it's all about meaningful friendships, then you are talking about a different Net to the one I see. But then, I don't for a second doubt that this is indeed the case. - JSR