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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Computer Networks and Literacy
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 19:26:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 19:26:17 1986
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This article is from allegra!ulysses!north@hplabs.HP.COM (Steve North)
 and was received on  Fri Nov 21 21:17:30 1986
 
You ran the experiment but you don't understand the result.  The key is this:
computer networks bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
Students who are meek and mild manners flame wildly on the net.  Meanwhile
the chairman of the dept. or someone else that projects a Presence and
knows how to control a meeting or read the look on his audience's faces is
deprived of his position and non-verbal information.  "The potential of the
net" is a joke.  It's mostly a lot of noise and a waste of time.  I mean
it's great to archive bug fixes from net.unix-wizards (bug fixes we would
never just install in our kernel because we don't really know WHO these
people are and if they know what they're doing anyway) but why choose
a narrow-bandwidth, impoverished medium like glorified electronic mail
when you can meet face to face?

I've done my own experiments (accidentally).
-- 
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus!