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At 11:37 AM 7/1/98 -0400, Deb Fuller wrote:
>*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.
I have in fact been out of the US. Why would you assume I haven't been --
because I don't agree with you? Yes, some people don't have access to
e-mail -- I mail things people I know who don't all the time -- but by your
reasoning should we not use e-mail as one way to announce professional
events or communicate until everyone has it? What's your point.
>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.
Why do you assume I make this assumption because I don't agree with you.
Are you saying that because some people only have text browsers, all web
pages should only have text? What's your point here.
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>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.
What is "troubling" about pointing out that based on response the large
majority of people on the list did not have a problem and that the message
conveyed appropriate information? I fail to see any irony here either.
>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?
I fail to see how you can make this statement based on what I posted.
Using technology to its fullest extent makes things more accessible
potentially to more people regardless of race, language (although the list
is in English, many websites are multilingual).
>Deb Fuller
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