US/ND-1: Re: us-nd-digest V1 #10
Re: us-nd-digest V1 #10
Ronda Hauben (rh120@columbia.edu)
Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:50:12 -0400 (EDT)
Responding to the post by Joyce Perkins <jperkins@tenet.edu>
>Waiting for the next generatin of college trained teachers is too long to
>wait. This legislation needs to manipultated and a way that a significant
>sum of money be spent on Training and acceptable uses of this technology.
>THIS IS AN AREA WHERE BUSINESS SEEMS TO DO A MUCH BETTER JOB THAN
>SCHOOL DISTRICTS. Why????
The problem with this has been shown on Usenet. Businesses encourage
users to use the Net for all purposes, rather than recognizing the
importance of the Net and the user policies and the importance
of contributing to the Net, not abusing it.
The Internet and Usenet were built over many years by academic
users and others who knew the importance of acceptable use policies
and cooperative efforts. All this past experience is being thrown
out the window, rather than being built on.
Our online book, Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and
the Internet http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120 documents the history
and development of Usenet and the Internet.
This has relied on academic and scientific efforts, and the spread
of the Net, to be successful, must still rely on and encouarge
such efforts. Otherwise we are left with golddiggers trying to abuse
the Net for their own bottom line purposes.
Also, freenet can be helpful in this regard. And libraries can
have training.
There needs to be a public and academic component to future
Net development, not the hype of "business does it all better."
With regard to the development of Usenet and the Internet, that isn't
true, as the history and development thus far demonstrate.
Ronda
rh120@columbia.edu