From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!cbosgd!osu-dbs!jcj
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Queries on the network.
Article-I.D.: osu-dbs.172
Posted: Sat Nov 27 14:51:33 1982
Received: Sun Nov 28 04:57:30 1982
References: unc.4219

I must strongly agree with the position that what a network is really
useful for is asking questions about what other people have available,
whether software or hardware (tho esp the former), since I am lazy enough
to want not to have to write/build it myself unless I have to.

If we can't ask what you've got that's worth having, you can't ask either,
and that means you have to write/build it yourself too.

Marketplace of ideas and all that.  I can't think of anything more
appropriate to do with a network than use it as a sort of "continuous
conceptual bootstrap" to improve what all of us are working with.

Thanks for the time.  I needed that.

	John Columbus "Lum" Johnson II (after my greatgrandfather)
	...!cbosgd!osu-dbs!jcj (new on net)