[271] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: pointless bickering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Lummis)
Mon Mar 4 17:52:00 1991
From: Bob Lummis <bob@aecom.yu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 17:18:40 EST
In-Reply-To: <9103041454.AA21084@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>; from "Dan Schlitt" at Mar 4, 91 9:54 am
I'd like to add to the noise level by observing that the listservs are
actually used by real researchers other than computer scientists and
like-minded technofreaks. If you look at the complete list of
listservs, you see many disciplines and many serious topics. And if
you subscribe to some of them you see that they are actively used by
professionals for discussions of content within their own field.
As opposed to netnews groups which are practically all either
computer-related topics or frivolous topics.
I conclude from this that the listservs work well enough to be actually
used by non-computer-science researchers. And that we may have
something to learn from them.
