Well, you miss the point, IMO ... the Internet, as it was historically developed and as we knew it for the first twenty or so years of its existence reached its death in 1994 more or less, when the invaders moved into our village. _We_ had a good thing going; _we_ had a wonderful system which mostly worked quite well. Along with the first bunch of no-goods to move in and take residence here were the movie and music people, who refused to accept the basic concepts here that what you leave out in the public way is intended for use by the general public. They could not or would not accept that simple concept which governed us quite well for a couple decades. They said the way we will get even with you for rooting through our movies and music scattered everywhere is _not_ by setting permissions on the directories to keep you out, if will be by suing each of you who dare to get into our stuff without permission, since you old-timers here no longer run things; rather we with the money and the (ostensibly) good looks and charm are now in charge. Shortly thereafter, other maruders came along and attempted to redefine what the internet would be about. Now that they have done just that, you want to sit there and act surprised? Why in the hell weren't these people stopped dead in their tracks before they moved in and took over? Now it is going to be impossible to get rid of them.
PAT