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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: more signal, less noise
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:11:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 11:11:00 1985
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> If what you are saying is important enough, it will stand the test of
> time.  If your message is so pointless as to become worthless if it
> gets delayed for a day or two, why bother posting it at all?  /*
> Written 10:51 am  Nov  3, 1985 by roy@phri.UUCP in
> ccvaxa:net.news.group */
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My note was posted 31 October.  Roy's response arrived back here
7 November.  Maybe it isn't possible to have contemporaneous
discussions on the net at all.  I guess I was spoiled by my
original experience with this kind of net, using Plato notesfiles.
Discussions in Plato notes are often real-time, with interaction
from all over the country within minutes.  There's a lot to be
said for continuous connectivity.

I still think moderated files are too slow for any subject area
where discussion (as opposed to exposition, announcement, or
promulgation) is to take place.

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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