Re: Information overload

Bill Drew -- Serials Librarian (DREWWE@SNYMORVA.BITNET)
Fri, 31 Jan 1992 09:05:00 EST 

Date:         Fri, 31 Jan 1992 09:05:00 EST
From:         Bill Drew -- Serials Librarian <DREWWE@SNYMORVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Information overload

I donot agree with Ed at all!!  The quality of discussion on this list
is very good without a lot of extra garbage.  I donot have access to
usenet as is with many other librarians.  I have tried news readers on
various internet bulletin boards and find them arcane, clumsy, and not
user friendly.
 
Why should I have to sift through over possibly a
thousand news groups to decide which ones I want to subscribe to?
That is what happens if you access news on some internet bbs's using
the rn(?) news reader.  The full screen ones are not much better.
 
The naming structure of news groups is difficult to understand and illogical.
At least when I subscribe to a listserver I can get a description of
it relatvely easily.
 
 -Bill Drew-
 
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