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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.singles
Subject: Re: Reading USENET articles
Message-ID: <2571@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 03:24:45 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2571
Posted: Sat Apr  6 03:24:45 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:08:22 EST
References: <8374@watarts.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Summary: 

In article <8374@watarts.UUCP> kevyn@watarts.UUCP (KCT) writes:
>I am sure some users of the Net must have noticed a definite difference in
>tone between articles which are displayed and scrolled on a video screen
>and the same articles written to a printer, and read later as a printed page.
>Have YOU noticed this? Why do you think this is so?

Well, I haven't specifically studied the difference between reading news on
paper and on CRT, but I have studied the communication link versus normal
human communication quite seriously. I would expect the difference is
because putting it on the page gives  you the chance to think and study the
material -- the tendency  on the net seems to be skin and react rather than
read and reply, hence the tendency towards misthought flamage. Perhaps by
taking it offline you give yourself the chance to think about what is being
said; reacting to the message instead of the words and the media.

chuq
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