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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
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 12:27:38 1984
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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.