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From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion, SCI.VIRTUAL-WORLDS
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.195904.8008@alembic.acs.com>
Date: 25 Nov 89 19:59:04 GMT
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In article <14720@well.UUCP> bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson) writes:
> 
>Okay, enough from me.  More from you!
>
>-- 
>BOB JACOBSON, Associate Director, Human Interface Technology Laboratory
>       University of Washington (FU-20), Seattle, WA 98195 USA
>   (206) 543-5075 (voice), 543-5380 (fax)   *   bluefire@well.uucp
>                >> "We can do virtually anything." <<

First, let me say that I support the group, and given its interdisciplinary
nature, sci seems like the best place for it.

However...

It bothers me that both Jacobson and Rheingold are posting from the Well.
It's not like UofW isn't on the Internet. Doesn't HITL have any computers?

Part of what makes this proposed group more than just an attempt to
move alt.cyberspace into the central hierarchies is the cachet that
comes from having it proposed by people who are actually doing research
into virtual reality as a serious scientific endeavor.

The fact that the two principle proponents of the group don't post
through washington.edu makes me wonder if we aren't being spoofed
just a bit.

Yours for a more paranoid tomorrow,
Dave Mack