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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:23:00 HST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- Subject: Re: signoff
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- >I didn't see it as criticism. I saw it as somebody's personal biases about
- >what net life "should" be. (The "somebody" refers not to you, but to
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- Speaking of what net life should be, WORDS-L failed to get a mention
- in a current article on network mailing lists. The author is Adam Begley,
- identified as a freelance writer and book critic. His article,
- "Electrotalk Therapy: Sex, Politics, and Paranoia on the Net," is in
- the January/February 1993 issue of _Lingua Franca_. You won't learn
- anything from it; you'll just wonder how he missed sampling this list.
- His conclusion: "The net is an experiment to see what it is here for."
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- Michael E. Macmillan
- (macmillm@ewc)
-