From: "Bruce Janz" <JANZB-AT-Corelli.Augustana.AB.CA>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 08:54:59 MDT
Subject: Re: cows and bridges


There may be a simpler explanation to the phenomenon of lack of 
response to Australian messages -- there is a lack of response to 
most messages. I have noticed myself, and several people who I've 
talked to have confirmed, that messages (or at least, issues) often 
vanish into the ether, with only private responses if any at all. 
This is true not only of this group, but of others. It may be more 
noticed when it is an issue that you have raised. And, familiarity 
with conditions is a factor -- one or two postings cannot make up for 
local media attention. The internet holds the illusion of world-wide 
exposure, but it takes more than putting an issue in front of someone 
for them to be able to fit it into their existing way of 
understanding the world.


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