On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:51:48AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> 	anything larger than several hundred geeks, gets too impersonal and
> unwieldy (compare the Internet of several years ago; or the BBS scene; to
> the Net of today); so I'm kind of opposed to it. In short, being an ISP does
> not bring happiness; being part of a community of clueful people comes much
> closer. That's just my view, tho. Feel free to discuss. :)

You can have both.

I agree that when you get large, it starts to become less personal,
but the community can rise to the top and contribute.

In fact, some people can become rabid supporters or dissenters.  Still
part of the community.

Even the place I work has a community.  It is kind of inbred and rabid
and weird, but a community it is.

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