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Subject:	AOL/Time Warner = The end of the internet as we know it!
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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:21:41 GMT
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Check out this article for some scary predictions of what will happen when AOL'ers get that high speed connection to the internet and start using it in the same way the unsophisticated web user uses AOL. Sending 30mb E-mails, bombarding sites with traffic. Hey it might be alarmist propaganda but it sounds plausible to me. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2423004,00.html Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group http://www.nelug.org/

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		Re: AOL/Time Warner = The end of the internet as we know it!
(...) The best kind always does. This is FUN alarmist propaganda, a variant of one of the canonical forms of "imminent death of the net predicted", but a good read nonetheless. Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) - - Web Application Integration! (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: AOL/Time Warner = The end of the internet as we know it!
(...) What will happen when that happens? My prediction: core routers will implement IP-level filters on the entire AOL domain. Hey presto, no more problems. And yes, I _know_ there are enough people who can and will do something like that if it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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