[12292] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: C&S&NYT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willis Marti)
Sat May 14 14:43:40 1994
From: Willis Marti <willis@cs.tamu.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 06:53:29 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com, czar@cyberspace.org
Chetly Zarko writes:
>
>I am a freelance writer and formerly a writer for a student
>newspaper. While there, I did a story about local problems
>(that would ethical ones) with networking on the University
>of Michigan. Although I was willing to overtly defend myself
>on the public bbs equivalents, because they contained dozens
>of people who were impacted by my story, it was nearly
>impossible to follow and defend against every flame. Imagine
>what Mr. Lewis would face out here on the Internet with
>thousands of angry academic flames each with its own thread.
I think you miss both points -- the first is, Is he *anywhere* on the net as a
'regular' user? ; the second is that rarely does one need to defend against
every flame. One or two good replies {if they could be made} or apologies, if
applicable, would go a long way.
>He would spend several hours a day just giving you minimal
>responses. It wouldn't be worth his time, whether or not
>he is trying to remain out of the news or as a part of it. He
>would use that time better writing other pieces and feeding
>his family.
Or using that time writing better other pieces...
