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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: Electronic Literacy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.010515.13134@eff.org>
- Originator: rita@eff.org
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <01GT0OHADBB6000674@camins.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:05:15 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <01GT0OHADBB6000674@camins.Camosun.BC.CA> Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA> writes:
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- >Having been involved in this kind of analysis since c.1974, I've become
- >convinced that nobody really understands electronic communications,
- >except in bits and pieces. Having been involved in all kinds of forums
- >and conferencing set-ups, I'm well aware of the varieties of local
- >customs involved, which is partly why I was surprised to see the use
- >of profanity on Words-L. Words-L is in fact the first I've run into
- >(and I was on it about 3 or 4 years back), in which the laws of the
- >Jungle are the only ones that apply.
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- WHERE on earth have you been? Prodigy?
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- You haven't been on words-l long enough to understand the
- nature of communications here if you call it the laws of the jungle.
- This place is positively kinder gentler.
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- >Rita, you didn't read what I said. I think its silly to try to explain what
- >exists, because that doesn't help knowing where we might go.
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- Oh really? Not at all?
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- >I don't want to know where we MIGHT go, I want to know where we WILL
- >go. I think we need to know where we will go, so we can deal with
- >the effects of electronic culture on literacy, in order to help
- >people to be more literate.
-
- And how are you going to know where we WILL go? Consult a
- psychic?
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