small not beautiful

[kelley]

At 06:13 PM 9/28/00 -0400, JessEcoh at cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/28/00 10:04:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
>jancarowan at hotmail.com writes:
>
> >  Mr Fitch, it is paradoxical indeed that the new technologies have given
> >  voice to those who then can only speak disparagingly of them. Before the
> >  internet, wouldn't you have been muttering your world view to yourself
> >  before donuts and coffee at some Krispy Kreme counter in an American
>subway
> >  station?
>
>    this is an odd suggestion.  are you saying that before the development of
>the internet, the only means ordinary people had of discussing their "world
>views" was via muttering, typically in krispy kreme establishments?
>    what did people do before the first krispy kreme franchise opened?

indeed.  this guy is logging in from stanford?  grrrrrrrrrreat.  i thought 
it was bad enough that mr geek didn't know how to unsub from a 
listserv.  somebody help me, i'm gonna start channeling carl and make some 
breathless comment about youth today.

kelley