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Re: L-cad is getting irritating!
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lugnet.cad
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Sat, 23 Jan 1999 02:26:08 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
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> > Hey man, it's 1999, not 1994! :)
> >
> > Is there anyone left on the planet who has e-mail access but who doesn't have
> > web access?
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> Yes. Not to be pedantic, but there are gobs(1) of people that don't have
> home PCs, but who have email access from behind a firewall at work. In
> many cases they don't have web access. This may well be because they
> have access via some weird package such as CC:Mail, Notes, or some other
> proprietary package (like MS Outlook, actually), because they are still
> using mainframes, or because their IT department just isn't yet out of
> the stone age and has web blocked.
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> The IT department at my last client JUST turned on web access for people
> in the last 2 months.
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> > Besides, even if there was someone without web access, they could always send a
> > subscription request via e-mail to news@lugnet.com... It wouldn't be too
> > difficult to handle a rare special case getting someone set up by hand.
>
> But this takes care of the problem. (2)
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> 1 - gobs in this case represents well under 1/10 of one percent of the
> total email population, mind you, but it is still thousands of people.
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> 2 - and further, people without web probably also don't have news
> access. So they may well never have heard about either RTL OR LUGNET
> anyway except via hearsay.
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> ++Lar
OK, fair enough. A follow-up question, then -- is there anyone who (a) only
has e-mail access and (b) also doesn't know anyone who does have web access and
(c) can't go to a library or cyber-cafe to use a web page to sign up for
something?
--Todd
p.s. Bram, I'm sorry for my flippant response... You're absolutely right --
you do pretty much need some kind of web access to subscribe to the groups via
e-mail or to get set up to post. For those people without web access and who
can't "borrow" web access temporarily from someone else (friend, library,
coffee shop), we can handle 'em specially, to overcome that rare limitation.
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