[10341] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Grumpy Old PACS-Lers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Dowling)
Thu Jun 27 20:31:56 1996
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:02:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling@ohiolink.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Net User 100 writes:
> Hey. . .I remember when PACS first started and posted announcements
> on a variety of other lists. . .some of which certainly had persons
> who might have been entitled to the same response.
Had Charles Blair announced PACS-L as far afield as computer games forums,
people on those forums would have been justified in criticizing the post.
(I don't recall it happening that way; I first heard about this list in a
professional library setting, where it was highly appropriate.)
Similarly, I think I'm justified in suggesting that an announcement for a
BBS specializing in Doom, SimCity, et al., does little to enhance the
usefulness of this forum, especially since I hear a broad consensus that
this list needs much greater focus rather than greater diffusion. I have
suggested before that an easy, low-maintenance step the list owner could
take toward greater focus would be to accept posts only from subscribers.
I suggest it again.
>
> It is so interesting to see people I remember as newbies now flamed
> out of their minds because there are STILL newbies coming in.
"When I was your age, I had to walk 12 miles through the
snow--barefoot!--just to get a 300 baud connection to a PDP-11..." With
such a long memory, I'd have thought you'd still recognize what is and
isn't a flame. I was under the impression it didn't cover mild, polite
dissent.
>
> Lighten up.
>
Thomas "Absolutely Effervescent" Dowling
