Re[2]: [FM] Re: internet radio WUMB revisited

Ron Mura rmura@world.std.com
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:49:43 -0500


> [Alan sez: I decided to try WUMB out and it wouldn't work for me at
> all. I had to sign up and give them a bunch of personal info that I
> wasn't crazy about handing out, then it told me that my
> username/password combination wasn't valid. (after it had just
> approved them.)

This definitely turned me off.  Why should you even have to sign
on--forget about giving out personal information--to listen to radio?
If that's the future of Internet radio, I'll stick with the
old-fashioned receiver.  ;-)

Ron