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From: dave@jplopto.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: the deafening silence
Summary: Yo...like....is anybody OUT there?
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.224148.19484@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 5 Oct 89 22:41:48 GMT
Reply-To: dave%jplopto@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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In the past few weeks I have noticed a marked discrepancy between
the amount of questions asked on this newsgroup and the amount of
answers received.   

I have recently posted an article to which I have gotten no response.

This leads me to ask "Is this newsgroup alive?" "Does APOLLO listen?"
"Does APOLLO care?" 

I can see that there may be some questions which have no real answers.
But fully half of the queries posted here are met with the kind of
silence that makes one think that one's post did not get through to
everybody. 

Certainly if none of us users know the answer, someone from APOLLO (and
some of these people have posted in the past) would be in a position 
to provide needed answers. Or at least a "Well, hey, got your message
and we're working on it/looking at it/thinking about it/etc."

But, alas, maybe I have too much faith in the good side of human nature. 
For certainly no one has to respond to anything. Maybe I expect too much.

-Dave Hayes
dave%jplopto@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov