Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!shelby!apple!bionet!calstate.bitnet!OLIVER
From: OLIVER@calstate.bitnet (OLIVER SEELY)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.gene-org
Subject: RE: TIME WELL SPENT
Message-ID: <9010212029.AA24732@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 21 Oct 90 20:22:17 GMT
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Dear Dan,
It's a problem that finally must be dealt with at an individual level.
If your advisor doesn't like you doing this, you may simply have to give
it up until you get your degree.  After you get your degree and tenure
at some secure institution then you can show anyone who doesn't like
what you're doing an upraised digit (not the thumb).  I highly recommend
doing this from time to time.

There is however another possible solution.  Why not poke around Hopkins
until you find someone (or better yet, two or three) faculty who are OLDER
than your advisor.  Introduce them to BITNET and BIONET on the QT.  Even
better, have them ask your advisor if you can help them to logon the computer,
etc.  Sooner or later you'll find one (or two or three) who gets hooked
and your advisor will have to see what all the fuss is about.

It's worth a try.

Oliver.

P.S. Last summer I had a temporary job at UCSD.  I found a professor
emeritus in the Chem Department who wanted to be able to access Current
Contents from his home.  I helped him to set up his modem, etc., and
he has become an evangelist for high-tech.  Runs all over the place
talking up high-tech telecommunications.  You know what he's using
for a modem?  A 300 baud acoustical coupler!  You're probably too
young even to know what that is!

Good luck.  O.S.t