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From: nic.paulp@cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,alt.culture.internet,alt.culture.usenet
Subject: Re: Is PED lying? (Was: From TIME: Elmer-DeWitt Gets Spammed)
Date: 16 Mar 1996 10:13:12 GMT
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(Posted and emailed.)
In article <ped-1403960717200001ped.@dialup.access.net>
well.ped@com (Philip Elmer-DeWitt) writes:
>About a day's work, spread out over a week. But I've learned a lot--like
>the marvelous unsub * (netwide command. Next time I'll do better.
>
>BTW, got a call from Rush Limbaugh yesterday. Apparently his was one
>CompuServe addresses that got hit with the same E-mailbomb.
I hope the two of you realize that you could have some college student
on hand to answer all your technical questions, for a pittance.
I'm serious. When confronted with superior technology, is it so
unreasonable to suggest that you call someone and say, "What do I do?"
To me, this seems vastly preferable to firing off an article about
it before researching it.
Really, was it wise to admit how little you knew about mailing lists
to mumble-million readers, when you could have acquired all the necessary
knowledge in the time it took you to fire off that sentence? Doesn't the
senior technology editor of TIME want to appear at least a step or two
ahead of his readership?
Or is it, as I sometimes suspect, that you believe people will identify
more closely with semi-technical material if they feel it is nearly as
mysterious to the author as it is to the reader? There's some terrible
conclusion about the average psyche lurking there that I'm quite afraid
to draw.
-PSP
--
"I'll carry the Cyberporn albatross around my neck until the day I die."
-- Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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