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From: hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: use the news
Message-ID: <1063@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 15:29:06 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Keywords: non computer types

Howdy - 

Here's a question (dilemma?) I have that some of you may have done
some thinking about. 

Here I am, the unix admin at a medium sized university, (~14,000) and
only about 160 people are using the net (these folks are mostly the 
grad students, staff and faculty that were using unix anyway). The people
that DO use the net use it fairly heavily. I advertised the existence of
usenet in our computer center newsletter, but that was kind of like
preaching the gospel to a bunch of clergymen... they are already interested.

What kind of novel ideas does anyone have about getting people who aren't 
already interested in unix/usenet/computers to realize what a powerful
resource usenet is?  I am not trying to drum up business/traffic on
usenet because I don't have anything better to do, I just think that it is
a shame that so many people here are missing out on such an important 
tool, just because they don't normally use computers and don't realize
what usenet is.

So... have any of you tackled the problem of informing a "general population"
about the power of usenet?

-Mike Marshall     hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu       ...!hubcap!hubcap