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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: opportunity,the net,and language
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 00:50:01 EDT
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Thanks for your pep talk, Owen, let's hope it will do some good.  I doubt
it, however, since many ROMs (what a marvelous acronym) just aren't the
kind of people who post at all, and the rest are paralyzed by the thought
of doing so.  It's worth reeopening the offer to post articles anonymously
sent to me by mail; I am more than happy to perform the favor, and to
forward mail back to the originator.  Naturally, anyone else willing to do
so should speak up.

It is difficult to maintain a net-wide discussion with only a few
participants.  As you note, there is really very little dialogue lately on
net.motss, little continuity between individual articles.  In my case, I
prefer to err on the side of posting less frequently, or at least only when
I feel I have something important to say, lest the newsgroup become an
exercise in megalomania.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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