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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Ladies and Gentlewombats, a little reminder
Message-ID: <698@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 11:59:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 23 11:59:20 1984
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Getting news to remind people of appropriate use has possibilities, and the
structure is at least partially in place in the 'recordings' software, which
is unfortunately broken in many ways. Also, it doesn't particularly handle
multiple postings well, and many people dislike being bbitched at everytime
they do something. The proper way to handle it is to get people to read the
documents on news before they post away at it, and to THINK about what they
are doing before they do it. These, of course, are unreasonable goals
because they assume that the users have enough intelligence to be
reasonable (I'm kidding, users... really!). What really needs to happen is
to make sure that usenet administrators make the documents available and
are willing to take an active enough part in the net to answer questions at
their site. As I have found out from my discussions with the mistake
makers, all too often the net simply sits there, and nobody knows who to
ask questions of or where to get reading material... When that happens,
it's no wonder they make mistakes....

chuq

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