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My experience tells me that any attempt of public communication through e-mail on the Internet is almost always a loss of time. The majority of the e-mails comes from zombies who molest you with the most outrageous demands. "Where can I find this program?", "I need to crack this game." Instead of opening their eyes and take advantage of the available free knowledge, they cry and they beg. Like Bob Marley says in one of his songs "... In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty."

However there are exceptions, and this is the reason that you read this text. diaplous is an effort to offer information about the Internet in the greek language. It is open to anyone who is interested to input knowledge. If YOU share your knowledge then some people might use it, and if more people share their knowledge we can create a database in greek which is highly needed by many people who don΄t speak English well enough.

Of course your help is not mandatory. You can take anything you want from these pages and use it as you wish. The magic of the Internet. The free access to knowledge and information. The free usage of this knowledge. This was the original idea and spirit behind the Internet. Unfortunately this freedom is endangered today. There are many, well-organized and well funded interests, who wish to transform the Internet in a marketplace.

If you wish you can go back to [the beginning], and see what you can find.
But if you wish to help, read on.

You can help by:

Calling my attention on mistakes, inaccuracies etc. and be assured that critique is always welcomed.
Sending in an article or translation of something you found. It will be added to the Website and proper credit will be given.
Informing me over dead links, useful programs and tools, issues that I΄m ignorant of.
Donating space in a server. But in no case sponsoring. I consider it gray advertising and therefore unacceptable. If something is valuable it has this value by itself. It does not need to be sponsored by any interests.

The pages in diaplous are made for screen resolution 800 by 600. No cookies are used and therefore I΄m not in a position to know how you move through the different pages. I don΄t ask for and I΄m not interested to know your personal data. However, I do keep server logs and therefore I have the IP addresses of the visitors. If you have a problem with that, find out how to cover your traces.

As you will notice there are no advertisements in diaplous (only the ones that the space provider uses), sponsors or banners. All pages are handmade with pure HTML and domesticated electrons, utilizing 2 exceptional programs, NoteTab and Ultraedit, which are free. All HTML code has been validated according to HTML 4.01 transitional standards. In this way I΄m sure(?) that all browsers can view these pages. Usually an informational Website does not contain any images. I want diaplous to have a pleasant look therefore I have used several images which I΄m sure you cannot find ...around. Furthermore, these images are optimized with the absolute minimum size so that they do not slow down your connection. In case this bothers you you can always use a respectable browser, like Opera, and turn the images off. Or if you insist on using the Internet Explorer go to the preferences and switch the images off. There is no trace of Flash, Shockwave and similar "multimedia look" stupidities on these pages. You will never encounter a pop-up window or frames used in my Website.

diaplous believes in the free access to information and the freedom of expression that the Internet offers. It supports the idea of [GNU-Open Source Free Software] and the idea of free usage of programs and applications. Additionally, it has signed [the manifest of Indie Web]. On the other hand, diaplous despises the advertising and any similar efforts to turn citizens into consumers (zombies), television and the news media which try to feed us news stories while they are murdering history, the unsuccessful software of successful Microsoft, all commercial parasites who try to sell porno pictures in the Internet to the zombies who are ignorant about the possibility of finding the very same pictures for free, the spammers who feel our inboxes with thousands of worthless e-mails that nobody asked for, the programs that maliciously spy on you and report to their bosses so that they can profile you. These are the issues that diaplous is willing to fight for. I need YOU to help me.

Who is diaplous

In order to evaluate what you find on the Internet, it helps to know the background of the person behind it. For this reason you can read the following paragraph. I was born in Athens Greece, a little late to be a hippy and a little early to be a punk. I have studied economics abroad and I have worked as a salesman, general manager of a big company, restaurant owner, art gallery owner and I΄m currently working as a consultant of a publishing company in marketing and Internet issues in Brazil. I speak English, Spanish, passable German and Portuguese.

I have been using the Internet since 1996, mainly for research and communication and I΄m interested on the issues that you read above. For the last two years I have been a volunteer editor for the open directory project.

My address

My address is: cpdiaplous(youknowwhAT)gmx(DOT)net.
Please note that my reply will come to you from a different e-mail address... if it includes an excerpt of your text then you know that it is from me.

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