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From: terrell@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU (Roger Terrell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: use the news
Message-ID: <70@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 88 00:28:43 GMT
References: <1063@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: terrell@musky2.UUCP (Roger Terrell)
Organization: Muskingum College, New Concord, OH
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Keywords: non computer types

In article <1063@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes:
>
>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.
>
>-Mike Marshall     hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu       ...!hubcap!hubcap


I sympathize completely.  Although Muskingum is not a very large college,
it has proven difficult to get people to use this resource.  We put a
blurb about it in the college computer newsletter, but that didn't do 
anything to speak of.

The only way that I have found to get people using it is by word-of-mouth.
Tell friends who are not using it about this neat/useful/fun thing that
you know about.  Some of them will start using it and like it.  Encourage
them to tell their other friends, etc.

Not very practical, but it is slowly doing the job...

--Roger


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Roger Terrell
Muskingum College			...cbosgd!musky2!terrell (UUCP)
New Concord, OH  43762