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Lists--Comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Fri Jun 5 10:50:53 1992
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 09:39:21 CDT
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From: "Bill Drew-Serials/Reference Librar. SUNY Morrisville"
<DREWWE@snymorva.bitnet>
Subject: Re: Lists--Comments & Questions
As a recent "victim" of those that think any mail message is an invasion of
their "space" I must disagree strongly with many of the negative comments about
so-called irrelevant messages.
<FLAME ON> E-mail is not the electronic equivalent of littering the Earth.
Don't blame me because your software doesnot allow you to read the subject
line. You should be talking with your computer people about getting more
appropriate software. Issues such as how much computer storage someon has are
LOCAL issues. That is no reason to expect me to not send out what I deem to be
appropriate and reasonable messages.<FLAME OFF>
I do sympathize with those that have restricted resources. Whining about them
here will not get those resources changed. Those people should be talking to
their administrators rather than shooting the messenger.
Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Serials/Reference/Computers Librarian
State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology
P.O. Box 902; Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
DECnet: SMORV::DREWWE BITNET: DREWWE@SNYMORVA
Internet: DREWWE@SNYMORVA.CS.SNYMOR.EDU or DREWWE@SNYMORVB.CS.SNYMOR.EDU
Phone: (315)684-6055 or 684-6060 Fax: (315)684-6115
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From: "JoAnne Deeken" <DJOANNE@CLEMSON.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Lists--Comments & Questions
Elizabeth Lane makes a connection between the wasteful use of natural
resources and an unthinking overuse of the Internet. I'd like to
make a connection even closer to home. We university librarians are
spending much of our time trying to make our faculty aware that the
information they wish to have has a cost associated with it. Just
because it's in the library doesn't mean it's free. Those journals
cost money. We have difficulty convincing many of the faculty of
this because the faculty have never had to directly see the cost
of the information. The library was responsible for getting it and
cost was not important. Now that we often do not see the cost
of the Internet and just assume it's free because we don't pay for
it, are we falling into the same trap as our faculty did? Can't we
learn now that every kind of access has a cost and begin to control
those costs now BEFORE they spiral out of control?
JoAnne Deeken Clemson University
