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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:06:08 CST
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- From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Last Comments on Lurkers
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:02:57 CDT from <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1>
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- Oh, come, come. . .let's not be so pithy.
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- There is a perfectly good English term for those who watch and listen
- but do not participate, and while it is not the most wonderful of the
- words in the English language, it is fairly beautiful. . .
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- wallflowers.
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- That should not have quite the negative connotations, denotations, or
- whatever that "lurkers" had, and might encourage more to come in, and
- join the dance, much as the power elite users might prefer them to do
- otherwise.
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- I strenuously object to the comments labeled as the:
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- Last Comments on Lurkers
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- and I assure you that they were NOT the last.
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- I would like to see a "Wallflowers Week" be a part of the agenda for
- the year on each of the lists I participate in, and further warn you
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- "If You Don't Defend The Networks, Who Will?"
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- Thank you for your interest,
-
- Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text
- Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext
- Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532
- No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC
- hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
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