Has anyone yet figured out how much bandwidth is being wasted on
arguing about this?  Could it possibly cease and desist?  Just a
suggestion.  The back and forth this has taken is larger than the
original "travesty."




---Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> At 09:06 AM 7/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >        Please, it was not that long a message and many people, I'm
sure,
> found it
> >interesting and informative.  One major purpose of the list and the
web is
> >disseminating information quickly to large numbers of widely
dispersed
> >people.  We cannot reduce the use of the web to the lowest level of
> >technology potentailly in the loop without giving up a large part
of this
> >potential.  I found the complaint to be rather mean spirited and
much more
> >of a problem than the post.
>
> *sigh*  You've probably never been out of the continental US have
you?  In
> some parts of the world, and not just darkest Africa, the most current
> technology they have are 386s.  Heck, when I worked at the
Smithsonian, I
> knew plenty of people who were still working with 286s and whole
offices
> that didn't have access to e-mail.
>
> Never assume that just because you can access some information,
every other
> person that is on the list can as well.  I'd bet there are a fair
number of
> people who only have text browsers for the web and have to put up
with 2400
> baud connections, right here in the US let alone the rest of the
world.
>
> And I find this attitude of "well everyone else didn't think it was
too
> long and had no problems with it" a bit troubling and even ironic.
This is
> also the list where we are concerned with educating the entire
public and
> making museums accessible to everyone and not just able-bodied English
> speaking, educated white males, right?
>
> Deb Fuller
>
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