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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <15727@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 90 10:03:06 GMT
References: <1990Aug02.203405.40@looking.on.ca> <29103@becker.UUCP> <1990Aug04.171540.29439@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <1990Aug04.171540.29439@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>B news was first released in late 1981.  Since then, what has really
>happened of substance to USENET?   A few new readers.  A lot of
>pretend politics about newsgroup creation.  Faster propagation.
>But very little that has changed the way an ordinary user (not that I,
>as a "misinformed elitist" should care about them) works with the net.

Right, and if it ain't broke don't fix it.  Why can't we simply accept
that Usenet works, instead of proceeding from a tacit assumption that
it's somehow broken and needs to be fixed?

If you want to learn something, the net often has answers.  If you want
to discuss something, the net usually has people willing to discuss it.
New people and sites are coming online all the time, and aside from the
usual growing pains and cross-cultural issues (like the BBS-itis I
occasionally rail against) it's all fitting together reasonably well.

There are complaints, but that's a feature, not a bug.  Some people HAVE
to complain -- and the net's there for them, too.

Senator, I have SEEN messes (I have MADE them!).  Usenet doesn't qualify.

-- 
"I'll win.  I always do."        \/   Tom Neff
 -- G. Steinbrenner, July '90    /\   tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM