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From: avi@pegasus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Where's the time??? -- Who sleeps?
Message-ID: <933@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 20:45:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 13 20:45:47 1984
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Sy Ali asks:
  S	   My flame is a question. Where does everybody find the time to write
  y	all the messages that go through USENET? I'd love to do likewise (like
	those people who manage to submit 20-30 items every couple of weeks),
  A	but I'm busy trying to get my work and studies done. Is there a
  l	secret to the process, a method that allows a person to do this? I'm
  i	genuinely interested... I have trouble reading all the articles, much
	less sending my own (this is a minor exception).

I find that the time for writing articles is not the time-consuming part. It
is responding to all the mail that your article generates. What is even
worse, is taking a poll. Why do all these people feel the need to answer and
forget to give you permission to quote them!!!!! This leads to having yet
another round of messages between you. In addition, many people allow the
reply to return along the reverse of the path the article took -- instead of
editing the from line appropriately. I love getting a reply three weeks
after I sent an article that was eminently forgettable.

One other point is that WRITING an article takes very little time. Thinking
about it and  writing something with a modicum of usefullness or wit takes
plenty of time.  Since I ran out of both of the aforementioned qualities a
few hours ago (I have been at work for over 12 hours), I am forced to send
to net.flame -- where articles are not supposed to have any merit.

:-)
-- 
-=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241
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