there is the germ of a half-truth in hilary's suggestion(s).
in as much as not a single soul is reading this....
but, i wonder, are you _seriously_ suggesting that we open all
conversations in meatspace (wink!) with the, by now, obligatory
"apologies for x-postings"?!?!?!
rather wetting the bonfires of those pub spoilsports prone to jump in
with punchline spoilers - or indeed follow them with a dismissive
"heard it".
On 8 May 2002, at 21:00, Hilary Shaw wrote:
> let us not forget that before we communicated with fingers and
> eyes we once communicated with mouth and ears. Old fashioned
> and cumbersome, (although a lump of bakelite and copper back in
> the 19th century changed that somewhat), there are a lot more
> people online that way. And yes, if you speak to 10 people in a
> week, each speaks to ten others the following week, allowing for
> some duplication...in ten weeks or so a lot more than 300 million
> could be reached.
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Dan Knox
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University of Durham
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