bare bones design

[Elisabeth Roche]

If a "newer isp" is not offering telnet or usenet groups (although mine does
not directly offer because it is business oriented, so noone cares, but a
connection is available) then that "newer isp" is about out of business.

everyone wants irc, which my isp has always offered. And you should expect
and telnet and lynx and gopher and whatever you want. Including a web site
for a personal account included.

I would not sign up for a service that did not offer this, which speaks
directly to Margaret's point.

People don't necessarily know when they sign up for AOL and then transfer to
another ISP, a direct Internet connection, they just don't know what they
should expect, being numbed by the endless loading time of AOL and the
promise of something "really great" out there...

Elisabeth Roche ace at opus1.com
serendipity RULES!

At 05:41 AM 6/11/96 -0700, Margaret F. Riley wrote:
>
>>I proof my stuff on Lynx, Netscape, Mosaic and Explorer ..but have found
>>AOL browser the great common denominator.
>
>What I have been reading in the various web design magazines says that most
>of the designers use the AOL browser as the "minimal" design level now.  
>However, I did hear that AOL is preparing their new browser for downloading
>and it should be closer to the levels we expect.  Mac users will not see it
>until
>probably fall, and of course everyone will have to download it...
>
> Since posting our page two
>>weeks ago, we have turned up a nasty little problem...lack of telnet
>>support is becoming increasingly common.
>
>Lack of telnet and lack of Usenet newsgroups.  It seems most people think
>of the web as *the Internet* and the newer ISP's are not providing all of the
>bells and whistles needed to get to it all.  Realize too that most public
>libraries
>cannot provide telnet access and support for users of their public systems,
>so I advise web developers to link to what they can support on their own
>systems.
>
>Margaret
>
>Margaret F. Riley
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