Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)
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Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)
no, I am talking about the people that consider the Chat Rooms
internet access. And when the put their email address in a form, they
put something like "TGaArdvark" with no domain name. Or when I say I
have internet access, they ask me what chat rooms I go to or ask what
my screen name is. That is what I mean by shielding.
Sometime near 6:21 AM -0400 on the day earthlings refer to as
10/1/00, the monkey "TGaArdvark@aol.com" blurted something about "Re:
Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)" and it went like this:
>I don't follow you at all. What does AOL shield? And
>Macs did sheild you from basically anything dealing
>with sytem or hardware. And people who use AOL for
>chat rooms DO have Internet access. In that, AOL
>creates a perfectly normal PPP TCP/IP connection
>to their computer that goes directly to the net (no,
>not through a proxy either, the proxy is only a part
>of the AOL-MSIE integrated browser). Therefore,
>they have full 100% access to the Internet. Which
>I believe is all that's required for having "internet
>access".
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