09-01-2006, 10:22 AM
Quote:A decade before Microsoft released the first version of its Internet Explorer browser and nearly a generation before MySpace, The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, otherwise known as The WELL, was the place to be on the Internet.
It was ``the Park Place of e-mail addresses,'' according to John Perry Barlow, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a WELL user.
But to Comcast, e-mails forwarded from The WELL, now owned by Salon.com, are spam. The country's largest provider of cable and high-speed Internet added The WELL to its e-mail blacklist Sunday afternoon, blocking e-mails from the renowned online community of about 4,000 members...
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