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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:40:38 EDT
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- From: Deborah Johnson <djohnso3%ub.d.umn.edu@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
- Subject: internet reference
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- I have been a watcher more than a participant on this list, but I have
- to get my $.02 in...
-
- I play on the Internet often. Daily weather, the OED, the CIA Factbook
- -- I use them, but I lose them. The paths to get there change sometimes
- and it is really embarrassing to go to show someone something and it
- isn't there. Or it's there and the site is down or changing
- configuration and you can't access when you need it. I've been told,
- too, to FTP during off-peak hours. I can't answer the 9 am question if
- I'm not supposed to access the information til after 5 pm. That's my
- end of it.
-
- On the other end, there are faculty who do not care to even play with
- Internet sources much less use them when I suggest it. And students are
- often scared/uninterested/too busy to learn. Lack of cooperation is
- frustrating.
-
- It wouldn't hurt if we had a terminal we could access Internet sources
- from easily. Terminals we have, but they are usually busy with other
- traffic.
-
- I will use Internet sources more when the information services at
- various places make it more stable and even perhaps a little easier to
- use. A common command format would be helpful, too. (Do I 'q' to quit
- a screen or 'u' or 'page up' or...?) And my printer dies every time I
- try to print an FTP'd file. Argh!
-
- I'm not phobic. I just do not always have time to work around as many
- hurdles as there are now. As things improve, my using the sources will
- increase. And I suspect the same will be true of many of my colleagues.
-
- --
- Deborah S. Johnson
- Library
- University of Minnesota
- 10 University Drive
- Duluth MN 55812-2495
- Internet: djohnso3@ua.d.umn.edu
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