Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!pegasus!avi 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 Article-I.D.: pegasus.933 Posted: Mon Feb 13 20:45:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:35:23 EST References: <85@alberta.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 30 (:- 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 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi