NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/bit/listserv/edtech/2782

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Re: Flames on EDTECH
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        Vickie--

        Thank you for your wise posting. I agree wholeheartedly
with your policy. This is a particularly ambiguous medium. In my
own experience I had a public response to an informational posting
that made me feel quite unappreciated. The person wrote, "We really
need more important announcements like this" and asked a simplistic
question. When I composed a careful note asking how
I should read the response my private communication drew a private
reply that the message was meant at face value--and I felt I had
learned something important. Sometimes I post views from a humanities
position to encourage the "metal detectors" in our field to think.
The results are somewhat discouraging when my original message is
fragmented with >>>>>> down the left margin and the ideas are chopped
and distorted. It is most weird when people who I know from
conferences and their printed writings as fairly reasonable do this.
Basically, I ignore the insult and assume the aggravating person is
responding to something else altogether such as being overworked,
and underpaid. Anyway, this is to thank you for moderating.

        --Andrew

Andrew R.
J. Yeaman
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