Re: net comprehension (sorry, still off-topic)

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:09 AM -0700 8/11/97, P3D Eric Goldstein wrote:
>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...
>

...with the advantage that because everything's happening in software, I'd
think that things will become simpler to use much more quickly.  I remember
how long it took to build a VCR that could figure out for itself what TV
channels were available.  Given that list-server commands seem to be fairly
standardized at this point, I'm suprised that some clever programmer hasn't
written automatic subscribe/unsubscribe commands into an e-mail client...or
maybe someone has?

-Jim C.


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