#Dubai's Alerts Updates on JUST SHUT THE HELL UP letter May 20, 2001, Dubai, U.A.E.

Alert Updates May 20, 2001
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Ever been told to
JUST SHUT THE HELL UP
or else!

Dearest webmaster team of http://www.much.net

Dearest Organitec of Dubai,

Man ur site sucks.

Thank you for your most encouraging email. Nothing pleases us more than passionate views.

Before going on to criticise EIM, learn to make ur won webpages right. Get it!

Our website is run with a budget of approximately zero Dirhams, give or take a few fils; by volunteers; for fun. Unfortunately we don't have a surplus in our account of 2 billion or so Dirhams a year to play around with. Neither do we have a few million phone-line users, nor few hundred thousand Internet customers.

So the web page design is a mess. We have heard that before. Maybe twenty times a day. For years. Big deal. We are not a team of webmasters. We are simple the webteam. Interestingly, no one on the webteam is a web designer! And it shows doesn't it! So, #Dubai's web pages are a place for content. Not design. And content it does have. You took the time to wander around it - to get involved enough to respond - that is testimony enough.

Ur voting sucks. It is clear that u cheat like hell. And on the voting stuff. Well 'contruction team' for a team of webbmasters u lack common sense. One vote i viewed on the site added uptp 69% some rounding error don't u think.

No votes added up to 69%. Perhaps you mis-viewed the information in your mad frenzy of 270 votes in favour of Etisalat which you made on the Alerts page from 11:10am to 11:22am this morning (20 May 2001) from IP 213.42.66.36 . Quite malicious behaviour. And that too from one who calls those disrupting another's service "sad loosers."

We removed the spurious votes.

I am happy that EIM blocks sites coz they just deserved to be blocked. Get it. Go do something else rather than waste ppl's times.

You may be happy that EIM blocks sites. A perfectly valid opinion of yours. Other people are not happy. A valid opinion of theirs.

MUCH.NET is not about proxy blocks. In fact, it is not at all about proxy blocks. It doesn't concern MUCH.NET , except when huge chucks of the Internet are cut off from viewers by silly mistakes from watch@emirates.net.ae. There are many sites and groups dedicated to the issue of proxies in the UAE. We are not one of them.

Many people use our Web Boards to discuss Proxy information. Those don't reflect MUCH.NET's views. They reflect the views of the regulars to our website.

Maybe in the US u have free net but then was it always like this or did it take time for the prices to come down.

Go on, read this to see how things actually happened.

Etisalat made money off its Internet services practically from day one. Other ISP's who handled such volumes all reduced their prices and encouraged Internet growth in their respective countries. Etisalat did the exact opposite, milking their customers for their own benefit, making them pay for Etisalat's own inefficiencies, mistakes and ineptitude. All this to the detriment of Internet growth in the country.

Ur a bunch of sad fellows. Go suck on an egg and stop making useless sites. Maybe u'd like to show how to make a good webpage. I can do better than u and i am far younger than u r.

This "useless site" gets over a 1,000 viewers (and over 4,000 hits) a day on its over 1000 pages (20+MB) of information. Imagine if the site was well designed!

As for ur criticism of EIM. Well at least i am assured of the fact that unlike some FREE ISPs in the West they won't shut down and run away.

Yes, you are 100% right. Etisalat will never shut down. They are here to stay.

Sad loosers like u are ones spoiling EIm's service by trying to hack crack and cauze damage. Right.

Interesting that you associate us with hacking and cracking into Etisalat and "spoiling" their services. Accusing us of the criminal activity of cracking into EIM's service is libel. You may be called upon to substantiate that statement, or withdraw it.

Etisalat and EIM know about our site. Their admins visit it regularly, as do many Government agency's offices in the U.A.E. They are aware that we are not involved in any way in anything wrong. They know we are after better service and Internet Rates from Etisalat, discussing Internet related information and Channel #Dubai.

EIM subscribers want to access the net constructively, not for ur restricted content. So unless ur goal is to see utter garbage, u should not have a problem with EIM.

You seem to think MUCH.NET is all about Proxy blocking. Perhaps that is what you came in to look for, considering your repeated referrals to it? Unfortunately then, you missed the point of the website. Perhaps you were too busy voting.

Actually a quite precise goal is:
NOT "to see utter garbage."
Since a lot of the time that is what Etisalat's EIM gives us, we do have a problem with them.

So to sum it up.
JUST SHUT THE HELL UP. Or i'll have to do something about http://www.much.net

Please do feel free to give us more of your colourful views on MUCH.NET's content, and, as you say in your own threatening words, to "do something about http://www.much.net" whatever that may be.

Publicity for the site would make the causes more visible, and subsequently may embarrass Etisalat and spur it to better itself.

BYE Dearest ;-)

Organitec

Sincerely,

webteam@much.net

So, what do you think?

Vote Below.

Excerpts taken from here.
"Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), the state-owned monopoly telecommunications service provider, tendered for a turn-key ISP site in early 1995, and awarded the contract to Sprint. Prior to the contract award, Etisalat reported that it had received 3,000 inquiries regarding Internet service, and Etisalat's chief engineer indicated that the service would be considered a success if only a third of that number signed up. However, 1,500 subscribers had already signed up for service and paid their connection fee two months before the service became operational.[169] Sprint subcontracted the equipment installation and commissioning to Dimension Data, and the service was opened to the public on 6 August 1995. Emirates Internet (Emirnet, www.emirates.net.ae) had a total of 3,000 subscribers by the end of 1995, which grew to 4,000 by May 1996, with 15 leased-line clients and 350 new customers signing up per month,[171] and to 9,669 by the end of the year, when subscriptions were being taken out at a rate of 1,000 per month. Emirnet hit its stride in 1997, though, when subscriptions sky-rocketed to 45,150 by July and 88,552 by the end of the year (growth rates of 6,000 and more than 7,000 new users per month, respectively). These phenomenal growth rates were most likely driven by the major increase in leased-line clients, each of which represents several to hundreds of users, over the past year." Back to the Letter Above

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