On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Ivan Pope wrote:
> >At 5:39 PM +0000 2/4/99, Ivan Pope wrote:
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> I think my issue was with the rather blunt nature of lists - one is either
> on them or off them. This is a bit different to bars where you can drift
> around, pick up on conversations, move from place to place.
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Newsgroups, for some of us, are the not so hard-edge option.
>
> >But if you don't like how mailing lists work, web forums are the next
> >step forward. But
> >there are still going to be dozens of bars you wish...
This may be misleading. It steers us away from established,
tradition-or-habit/known channels.
A friend of mine - at least a couple years ago - was participating
in large chat groups. (He is a teacher of electronics & finishing
an advanced degree in sociology.) Was asking me about telephone
lines - since his connection out in the countryside was weaker
than mine. His group, besides exchanging typed commments and file
file transfers, was starting to want to pick up a telephone and
call someone - while modem contact was maintained.
Of course this is not in the direction of multi-conversations
in a bar, where it is easy to turn off and leave - but
multiconversationss at one table.
> I think my basic complaint is that we can't take advantage of the diversity
> out there without killing ourselves with traffic noise in the attempt.
> Of course moving the same concepts to the Web isn't going to solve that. I
> think we need much more subtle tools to do that. I was trying to think out
> loud about what they might be.
I agree noise is a serious concern. And I enjoy hearing you say subtle
tools could be to get through it. ('Get through' can be a ham radio
phrase.)
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
The terse is sometimes poetic.
- Paul
To have doubted one's first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
: - Oliver Wendell Holmes :
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