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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f140.n150.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: questions
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Date: 28 Nov 90 17:07:02 GMT
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[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

 JH> Those questions read like something out of MAD Magazine...
 JH> I thought it was funny...it was a joke wasn't it?
     
        The questions were no joke.  They were posted first by a 
person who gets about with a great deal of pain but little 
outward signs of a physical disability.  Becoming a 'computer 
geek' and communicating and socializing via modem is a real 
concern for him.

        When I first read I understood that some would be 
concerned about the image and others would be highlu thankful for 
this avenue of interaction.  I spent 2.5 years running around the 
fine country lecturing and attending conferences on the disabled 
in the late 1970s.  My health prevents that now, but I have a 
great interchange of ideas with others through my writing and 
through BBSing.

        Consider as a fact that ACCENT magazine returned an 
article to me on BBSing for the disabled saying they didn't think 
their readership would be interested.  Maybe it was my writing 
style, but I have not read anything in ACCENT about BBSing.

        Sorry, the questions were no joke.

                                -=joe=-

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