Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: opportunity,the net,and language Message-ID: <344@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 00:50:01 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.344 Posted: Tue Aug 13 00:50:01 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 23:26:57 EDT References: <503@hpda.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 18 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 {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA