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From: root@libove.UUCP (The Super User)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Getting people to use the news
Message-ID: <10@libove.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 02:02:25 GMT
Organization: NKJL Enterprises
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I believe that word of mouth and personal example are the best ways to
get people to try out the news. Imagine, someone walks up to a student 
who has never used computers, or uses them little and dislikes them
(an unfortunately common state), and hands them a flyer explaining how
useful the usenet and computers are for information and relaxation...

The student is going to look at it and say "computers are no fun, what
kind of **** is this?" and toss it...

Now, you walk up to an anti-computer friend, and say "Hey, come and see
this neat/funny/sad/special/great/whatever! article..." and all of a
sudden you have a convert. (Of course, they might come back and haunt
you as their grades drop, they stop sleeping... :-)

My vote: word of mouth.

-Jay Libove (Jay.Libove@andrew.cmu.edu  pitt!darth!libove!libove)