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- From: tel1568@tamuts.tamu.edu (Thomas Edward Landrum)
- Subject: Re: We had a really big #Election
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.051653.29576@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Summary: Many thanks to those responsible
- Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News)
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:16:53 GMT
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- This message is being posted for a friend. He's never been known to speak for himself or anyone else.
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- Well gang, I must offer my most sincere thanks and admiration for
- those who made #Election such an incredible success. You should
- know that I don't own a T.V., so as a result #Election was my only
- source of news. The radio station that I listen to had only
- spotty coverage, (mostly local at that) and I was concerned that I
- would just have to wait 'til the next morning. Looking back on
- what I had witnessed last night, I realized this morning that I
- received better coverage due to the efforts of those who reported
- (and typed REALLY fast) than I would have if I had TWO T.V.'s !!!
- As far as I am concerned this demonstrates the power we have
- collective access to through IRC. I'd like to see a little more
- of this kinda thing and a little less of the bot wars, ad nauseam.
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- Wow, you know what would be COOL? If a couple of microphones were
- strung up in the chambers of congress and a computer running
- excellent voice recognition software converted everything to ascii
- text files and another piece of software did the part of
- identifying who was speaking through voice print analysis and it
- could do it in real time and and ...
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- I know...just a dream...but wouldn't it be nice to be able keep
- an eye on 'em?
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- Again my thanks to the people who took the initiative and pounded
- on their keyboards to bring me (and many others) up to the minute
- news and information......
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- jon
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