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  1. Xref: sparky alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:4055 talk.environment:5806 comp.org.eff.talk:9361
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!citycs!city!Victoria!sb380
  3. From: sb380@city.ac.uk (HOLT A D)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,talk.environment,comp.org.eff.talk
  5. Subject: Re: The Schedule of Classes
  6. Message-ID: <sb380.728208829@Victoria>
  7. Date: 28 Jan 93 08:13:49 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan25.194346.3935@eff.org> <C1GtzJ.23I@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan26.093505.76@cobra.dra.com> <C1H842.DxK@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan27.125320.77@cobra.dra.com>
  9. Sender: news@city.ac.uk (Unix Network News)
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  11. Organization: The City University
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  13. Nntp-Posting-Host: victoria
  14.  
  15. sean@cobra.dra.com writes:
  16.  
  17. >What's the difference between printing material that may become out-of-date
  18. >in a newspaper, and making the material available for anonymous FTP?
  19.  
  20. A newspaper is recognised* as having information of current time ("news")
  21. value only that may become rapidly dated, also the average newspaper reader
  22. has a fair idea (usually slightly exaggerated) of the likelihood of the
  23. information in the newspaper being correct [using British examples, the
  24. Times has a higher reputation for accuracy than the Sunday Sport].
  25. Too many people, however, think "if it is on a computer it must be right"
  26. and take no notice of when the file was created (and may not be able to
  27. find this out anyhow)
  28.  
  29. * by "the man in the street"
  30. >Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  31. >Domain: sean@sdg.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
  32.  
  33.  
  34. Andy Holt // Computer Unit // City University // London EC1V 0HB
  35.