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From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,alt.flame
Subject: Re: High Schools on the Internet
Summary: LUDDITES!
Message-ID: <1990Apr8.173455.7844@wolves.uucp>
Date: 8 Apr 90 17:34:55 GMT
References: <9004060906.AA00677@awssn3.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.>
Reply-To: ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury)
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In article <9004060906.AA00677@awssn3.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.> 
(Joerg Hertzer) writes:
>quoting someone else without attribution:
>>Am I the only Luddite out here that thinks that High Schools should not be
>>on the Internet?
>
>I also am unlucky about that, but I think we should not forbid
>any interested people to use the internet, but we should design more secure
>network software.

	I would think that anyone using this medium would react to the
name Luddite's the way that a Jewish person might react to the term NAZI!
The anti-technology implications of Luddite are just as bad as the other.

	Followup to /dev/null.  I only get alt.flame when cross-posted.
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