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  9. Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 11:07:33 -0500
  10. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  11. From:         Nick.Carbone@WRITING.UMASS.EDU
  12. Subject:      Reply to Re: Lurkers or Wallflowers?
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  15. Wes's leap into the dictionary raised some good reasons for not using
  16. wallflowers, added to that is the absence of walls anyway in Megabyte Uni-
  17. versity.  Since we read through a screen, screeners?  Or since some
  18. read from a window, window shoppers?  Or since we sometimes read
  19. casually, browsers?  But since the sense of lurkers has always been--at
  20. least for me--of people who are on the list but in the shadows until they come
  21. out, shades might be a useful term.
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  23. Nick.Carbone@writing.umass.edu
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