Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: more signal, less noise Message-ID: <3500018@ccvaxa> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.3500018 Posted: Thu Nov 7 11:11:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:58:29 EST References: <3500015@ccvaxa> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:ccvaxa:3500015:ccvaxa:3500018:000:938 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Nov 7 10:11:00 1985 > 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 */ ---------- 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 ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece