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- From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Re: Introduction to comp.groupware (Periodic informational Posting)
- Message-ID: <23302L@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 22:01:59 GMT
- References: <groupware-intro_713595613@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- David Stodolsky <david@ruc.dk> writes:
- |
- | Please read carefully:
- | Any article posted to comp.goupware uses a minimum of ten hours of
- | reader's time.
-
- You can't multiply the time used by one reader by the number of readers,
- since nobody is actually spending any more time than they themselves
- spend on reading anything. It's not as if news readers are standing in
- line and waiting for the people in front of them to spend their one
- second reading the article. If an article takes one second to decide
- not to read, then one second has been wasted, and only one second, no
- matter how many people decide not to read it.
-
- Take a newspaper with a circulation of 1 million, and discourage people
- from submitting letters to the editor because any letter which appears
- in print will take about 1 second to decide not to read, and a whole
- month of 8-hour reading days is wasted by each letter. Great logic.
-
- Considering your line of argument, though, how much time do you think
- you're wasting by asking people to follow USENET etiquette in each and
- every introductory article? How many years of wasted time does that add
- up to? No, you say, this doesn't apply? Of course not, but neither
- does your bogus "10 hours" argument.
-
- Thanks for your cooperation.
-
- Best regards,
- </Erik>
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