Advocacy versus alientation (was Re: [ale] Re:)

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:32, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> 
> 
>>~    I think if we were all honest with ourselves, there was a time not
>>too long ago where we, too, were more than happy to be rocking along
>>with Outlook Express and IE.  God knows my 28.8 modem suffered at the
>>hands of many a 14MB IE upgrade.
> 
> I count myself as having led a charmed life. Before I got of the 28.8
> modem, I got rid of M$. Of course, downloading all those slackware
> floppies over a 28.8 modem was painfull...

300 baud with acoustical coupling, but that was before my Linux days... 
  My first Linux box had a 14.4 modem.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey