DegreeInfo.com Online community forum providing info about distance learning

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Distance learning and get online college degree, Accredited degree for MBA, Computer science

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The origin of DegreeInfo.com finds its roots in alt.education.distance, an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup that had long served as a forum for the topic of distance learning discussions. Over the years, many individuals made a.e.d a "home" of sorts, where lots of friendly discussion, the occasional heated debate, and humorous off-topic banter was exchanged.

The operators of a handful of "less-than-wonderful" schools and degree mills also made appearances on a.e.d. from time to time, including Les Snell, an insurance broker with a suspended license who owned a diploma mill known as Monticello University. Monticello operated out of the back of Snell's insurance agency in Kansas, but claimed to be domiciled in Canada, while issuing degrees from Hawaii. (Such multi-national claims are a very common thing among degree mill operators, which makes it more difficult to prosecute them.)

In 1998, Snell got so incensed with one particular group of regulars at a.e.d. who constantly exposed his fraudulent activities that he christened them the "Gang of Six," and tried to warn everyone away from comments made by any of the Gang. But, as is often the case in this business, Snell's attempts to discredit actually backfired, conferring an inadvertent and unexpected "credential of credibility" among those so named. Brought together by Snell, nearly all of the original Gang members met one another over the following couple of years at various Gang of Six meetings held whenever any two or more Gang members were in the same city at the same time.