pizer@ecsvax.UUCP (07/14/84)
References: <watmath.8324>
I would tend to disagree with Brad Templeton's remark about the final straw for
the net being the return to school this fall. The number of additional sites
shouldn't increase by any more than it is now (a couple every week), the only
difference would be the traffic. What this will require is better organization
and more awareness. For the user, this means limiting the distribution area,
perhaps, when it is not necessary to reach people across the country. This
means knowing what group(s) to put news in, and trying to correspond with mail
when at all possible (rather than posting a message that may be of interest
to others but directed at an individual, mail it). This may also mean limit-
ing the type of information transferred, to purely informative or discussion
oriented topics (as opposed to personal items). Although this might be cont-
rary to what it is used for now, and I'm not insinuating radical changes, I'm
just pointing out a possible course.
Now of course I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on these matters (I've
only been on the net for nine months), but I do believe that the net will
adapt slowly to changes, without any radical changes necessary, at least not
right now. Things have a way of working themselves out, and I don't really
think that future history books will be including "The Rise and Fall of the
Net" along with that of Rome.
Billy Pizer
(pizer@ecsvax)
{words of wisdom for the wary from the weird}