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	Rex Ballard
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On Fri, 12 May 1995, Steve Brown wrote:

> I clipped this from Edupage 7-11-95:
> 
> PRODIGY OFFERS A SHORTCUT HOME
> Prodigy is the first of the major online services to provide its customers
> an easy way to create their own home pages on the World Wide Web, by simply
> typing information into a set of templates on the screen.  (Wall Street
> Journal 7/11/95 B1))
> 
> If it's bad, then nobody looks (nobody is forcing them).
> If it's good, then my friends look (private).
> If it's great, then everybody looks (public).
> (We're such a voyeuristic society when we have the capability to be.)

Unfortunately, there is the illusion of privacy.  If I put my Resume on 
a reference line of my home page, and reference it in an e-mail message,
my Current employer could see that and make it mean all sorts of things.

One of the great bone-heads is to stick your "personals" and "resume" on 
links that are both referencing your home page.  This is especially true 
if that page doubles as an anonymous FTP area.

> everybody the *space* to develop in there own way. They're going to make a
> mint off this - people will definitely want the service. I'm willing to bet
> people will get a Prodigy account for the service alone. Are other consumer
> online services planning similar services? 

Most of the ISPs already offer "home pages" as part of the standard 
rates, but include the storage as billable space.  My service charges 
$1/megabyte/month if I go over 10 megabytes.  I think he's up to 4 gig 
now :-).

> Diversity is good. 

One of the fun things about the internet is that you may find 5 postings 
in 5 different news-groups and mailing lists and discover that there seem 
to be 5 different personalities.

> ----------http://www.jou.ufl.edu/people/wwwdev/stevbio.htm

And how many people are you today :-).

	Rex Ballard


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue May 16 00:33:08 1995