Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: "The deafness of the audience" Message-ID: <2707@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 12:27:38 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2707 Posted: Tue Jun 19 12:27:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Jun-84 02:34:23 EDT References: <1403@decwrl.UUCP> <1839@dartvax.UUCP>, <1060@nsc.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 The audience is definitely not deaf, nor mute. But in a forum with this many people participating, I see little point in posting my opinion when it agrees with what someone else has already stated fairly eloquently - as long as my ideas are already represented in the discussion, adding my voice to it will just increase the overall level of noise. Since I often don't read news until many days after it's posted (too many other things to do), usually someone else has already said something appropriate. The fact that I don't post anything doesn't mean I have no opinion. Do you really want 5000 people to each post their own opinion? On USENET, terseness is a virtue.