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Jim Miller  
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 More options May 22 1996, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
From: ji...@netcom.com (Jim Miller)
Date: 1996/05/22
Subject: Re: HPO exists already; it's called MDOP
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hsi...@crl.com (Paul Hsieh) wrote:
>James E. Prescott <jepr...@nextel.net> wrote:

>>There certainly should be a place for moderated no-crossposting
>>discussion of Objectivism and other broad topics. And there is.
>>It's called e-mail.

>>I subscribe to the email list, Moderated Discussion of Objectivist
>>Philosophy, and it (to some degree at least) fills the need that the
>>proposed hpo is targeting.

>I must respectfully disagree with your main argument.

>A moderated e-mail mailing list cannot serve the same role with respect
>to newbies as a Usenet newgroup.

>Right now, any newcomer interested in learning more about Objectivism can
>simply search the set of all newsgroups for the keyword "objectivism"
>and find a.p.o.  He can then immediately jump into any discussions he
>wants to, start a thread of his own, or simply lurk to his heart's content.

With the onset of information-organizing tools for the net, such as
search engines for the World Wide Web, your argument simply doesn't
hold anymore.  In fact, newbies are much more likely to be clicking
around on the much-publicized web, rather than jumping into the intricacies
of newsreaders.  A search for "Objectivism" with Lycos or Webcrawler,
or taking a few logical steps down the Yahoo hierarchy, will readily
turn up the Objectivism-related mailing lists.

-Jim Miller

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|          Jim Miller            |  "The whole problem with the world is that|
|       ji...@netcom.com         |fools and fanatics are always so certain of|
|      j...@umcc.umich.edu        |themselves, but wiser people are so full of|
|http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~jgm/ |doubts." -- Bertrand Russell               |


 
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