[915] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
internet consumer reports on state-wide IP networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri Jul 5 18:09:22 1991
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 18:08:23 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM's message of Fri, 5 Jul 91 15:37:06 EDT <9107051937.AA03418@spam.Warren.MENTORG.COM>
>From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM
>> I thought it was a bit quixotic myself, but then again so is the idea
>> that you're going to catalog every piece of printed matter...
>
>I don't know why this is quixotic to you. I spent 2.5 years working
>with librarians. They may do things "the old fashion way" but they
>know what they are doing.
Hmm, I seem to keep getting mail/responses centered around my use of
the word "quixotic". I meant "extremely idealistic", with a tinge of
naivete perhaps. Not really a negative, we all must tilt at our
windmills (to mix metaphors just barely!)
Perhaps I should have said "admirably quixotic". In fact, I wish I
had.
Otherwise I agree with your sentiments 100%.
The librarians in the group I spoke with and listened to had a
definite "can-do" attitude. They obviously had long ago eschewed the
sort of "oh no it's so big and amorphous and changing" attitude which
so often cripples those who prefer their worlds to be described in
neat little algorithms when, likely, nothing other than plain old hard
work will do the trick.
-Barry Shein
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