Re: net comprehension

[P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxx>]

John W Roberts wrote:

> OK, so it's not a perfect analogy - a closer one would be for the irate
> caller to place an advertisement with the same message, so all the
> viewers would receive it. The point is that it would clearly be
> ridiculous to think about television in this way, and yet many people on
> mailing lists don't realize that they're just as wrong about how mailing
> lists work

Agreed that it is ridiculous, but television stations receive just such crazy 
calls daily. As the internet becomes more turn key, more mainstream and more of a 
mass communication medium, so will it begin to experience all of the joys and 
frustrations of dealing with the mass audiences...


Eric G.


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