RayDude writes:
This is a captured chat from the Time Magazine, Time Odeon Online Forums. On America Online, my handle is RayDude. ...
Barlow1 : improved traffic analysis. Content is less important than context, and most agents will Barlow1 : support this. Shuddup : (6) I really don't accept the traffic analysis argument. That's too much work! COUNTMINDO : (6) i just don't like having a product forced on me, we don't all have to buy FORD's if we want to COUNTMINDO : (6) deal with the government RPTime : Another question from the audience. JCMaille asks... ...
PaulR42 : (6) Cool, RayDude!
K00L, RayDewd! Like, I'm glad dewdz like you can , like, _follow_ this stuff. Maybe you can translate it into ordinary prose for old farts like me, who favore multi-sentence paragraphs and even reasonably thorough explications of ideas that don't fit into a single line of repartee! No insult to Arsen Ray is meant, and there may even be some nuggets in there I missed. But it sure does reinforce my hatred for "IRC" and similar fora for the attention-challenged. From what I could see scrolling by from Ms. Denning, she wasn't getting into the "dewd repartee" either, showing that we have at least one thing in common. Repartee has its place, and we all do it. But the format here is not conducive to getting views exchanged and coherent thoughts developed. What a waste. Me, I'm not as polite as Ms. Denning. About one minute into this I woulda said "Fuck this shit, I'm outta here!" --Tim May