From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!gjm
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Announcing net.books
Article-I.D.: ihnp4.192
Posted: Wed Feb 23 00:44:27 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 05:57:27 1983
Reply-To: gjm@ihnp4.UUCP (G. J. Murakami)


net.books is here!

This news group is for the discussion of books of all kinds:
classic or current, comic or tragic, thick or thin, famous or infamous.


To get things started, I would like to mention a book that Paul
Lustgarten kindly lent to me.  THE NETWORK NATION - HUMAN COMMUNICATION
VIA COMPUTER by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murry Turoff (1978 Addison-
Wesley) is a comprehensive work on computer conferencing.  The authors
cover the full range of the subject including the technology, the
sociology and psychology, the politics, the economics, and the
opportunities.

Usenet, the usenet community, and its history have brought the dicussion
of Hiltz and Turoff into real life.  We have already experienced many of
their "predictions" and have already progressed through some growing pains
toward the establishment of a communications community.

While I haven't yet had the free time to read much of the book in depth,
I am very impressed by what I have read.  The book is also heightened by
opening each chapter with a "ficitious issue of the Boswash Times, the
computerized news service of the Boston-Washington megalopolis." 


	[THE BOSWASH TIMES, June 1, 1993 -- Social News column]

	Capulet-Montague -- Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague
	announce with joy their forthcoming marriage.  In order
	that both families may attend without undue risk of
	disturbing the ceremony, it will be conducted by
	computerized conference.


Welcome to net.books!  Enjoy!


	Gary Murakami		IH/IW/IX netnews administrator - networking
	Bell Labs - Indian Hill
	ihnp4!gjm