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From: jlong@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long)
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Subject: Re: Help!
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Date: 4 Apr 91 19:31:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar25.142936.21295@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <11253.27ebbbdb@zeus.unomaha.edu> conslt16@zeus.unomaha.edu writes:
>>	Anyone who has ANY information regarding Animal Laboratory testing
>>  that you can spare, PLEASE! PLEASE send it As SOON AS POSSIBLE!  I need it
>>  within the next week, AT THE Latest!!! Please,  CASE STUDIES WOULD BE 
>>  MOST USEFUL, SHOWING ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT LABORATORY TESTING OF ANIMALS,
>>  PRO OR CON, I NEEDE'M RIGHT O'WAY!   ALSO,  I WILL HAVE TO USE SOME PRIME
>>  SOURCES, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THOSE TOO, PLEASE SEND THEM. ANYTHING
>>  WITHOUT PROPER CREDITING OF SOURCE WILL NOT BE USED, BUT READ.
>
>   Why do people persist in doing this?  I noticed a posting in sci.electronics
>recently, also, which was obviously asking for the answer to a homework 
>project.  Are students unable to do any research for themselves anymore?
>--scott

Scott, the subject of the article, the SHOUTING!!, the choice of newsgroups
used, the deadline of next week,... Pretty funky indeed.

But..... 

What is this net for anyway? This student IS doing research. You can go
to a library and cruise the stacks, copying from the work of others, you
can write to researchers, interview people, do experiments yourself, or
post a question to the net. What difference does it make? Are you suggesting
that this students, in order "to do research for themselves" must actually
go and do laboratory testing on animals in order to do a report on the 
subject?

You picked an extreme example, and your point is well taken. But perhaps
the student in question needs a gentle reminder of the customs of the net.

The student was indeed using the net for its intended purpose!

You and I are using the net to blow off.

Aloha,
LongJohn