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From: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Netnews, USENET's composition, and "real" newswires
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Date: 12 Jul 88 17:34:10 GMT
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In article <844@ccnysci.UUCP<, dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) writes:
< I want to back up what Erik says about the benefits that would come
< from more journalists reading USENET.  

Gee, sounded more like Erik wanted us all to become journalists -- a
slightly different matter.  Me, I'll do weather reports (just a sec,
.... today there is weather, all over the eastern seaboard -- as is
well known, in alt.california they only have climate).

< In a technophobic society I think that this sort of activity is a
< professional responsibility.  It is too bad that almost the only
< contact elected officials, journalists, and the like have with
< technical folk is when we are promoting something.

You mean like when we are trying to make sure that they understand
that the computer is their friend?

---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)