Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nfsun!ditka!dasys1!cucard!ccnysci!dan From: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Netnews, USENET's composition, and "real" newswires Summary: Short reply to one of Webers inanities Message-ID: <847@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 18 Jul 88 13:08:13 GMT References: <465@nbc1.UUCP> <8898@netsys.UUCP> <4242@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <844@ccnysci.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) Organization: City College of New York Lines: 21 In article webber@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: >In article <844@ccnysci.UUCP<, dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes: >< In a technophobic society I think that this sort of activity is a >< professional responsibility. It is too bad that almost the only >< contact elected officials, journalists, and the like have with >< technical folk is when we are promoting something. > >You mean like when we are trying to make sure that they understand >that the computer is their friend? No BOB. It is too late for that. Management at most newspapers has decided to get rid of typewriters and use computer terminals instead. They understand all about "the computer is down" and "I just lost the only copy of the story I was writing". They need help in distinguishing the hype from reality. Do you relly object to that? --- Dan Schlitt dan@ccnysci