Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What I did today
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:19:08 +0200

From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 05:07
Subject: Re: [Leica] What I did today


> And what are they going to talk about. The 5 billion
> inane web pages that have no impact on society?

It depends on whether they are committed to describing reality, or just to
selling papers.

> The couple thousand or so that do have some positive
> impact are hard to talk about over and over.

There are many millions of nice Web sites out there, all with positive impact.

> A majority of the money made on the net is from porn.

Porn makes a lot of money in print, too, but nobody talks about publishing as if
it were a hotbed of pornographers.

  -- Anthony