[1266] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Apology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ((Elizabeth Lane))
Mon Sep 21 13:26:14 1992
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 11:23:15 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: "(Elizabeth Lane)" <elane@ho07.eng.ua.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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I've received a number of private replies to my recent messages
about "information bullies" (although I was not the one to first
use the term here...). Most of them have been from folks working
in computing centers, taking issue with what they felt was my unfair
characterization of them as a group. Let me clarify.
I do not believe that "computing center people" have really become
"information bullies," any more than I believe that "library people"
have been so in the past. What I *do* believe is that there are
people in both types of organization that have been guilty (past and
present) of building too many walls on the information turf, and
of not using each other's skills through cooperative activities.
The *reason* this seems true to me is that there are "exceptions that
prove the rule" in a number of places. When people from computing
and library areas of campuses (or other organizations) do work together,
the results are often startlingly good. But I think it still happens
far too infrequently.
Really, people, some of my best friends are programmers! :-) And if
pressed, I'll even admit to having written a linked list or two in C.
My apologies to those who took offense. Let's move on to more productive
topics, shall we?
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