Re: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress

On Thu, Oct 29, 1998, Joseph P. Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Albert Henderson <noblestation[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > People like you and me still read; many are stimulated to write.
> > Errors account for many citations aimed at criticizing rather
> > than amplifying.
>
> But, they only increase the information pollution or smog. It is no
> wonder why we have information anxiety.
>
> Someone(*) said, "A writer shall love the reader for his sake."
> I think that such golden rule is a good antidote to information smog.
>
> * At first, I thought that Charles S. Peirce said the quotation
> but I could not find the source. So, I had to say, "someone", because
> I believe someone already said it.

I must repeat, that, from my (admittedly limited) experience, there is a lot of wasted paper in Academe. Many professors are over-worked and encouraged to publish beyond their capacity to fulfill. If a "civilian" like me can go to the library and find the correct answers, answers which these professors could have found, lying there on the shelves gathering dust because the professors don't know where to look or care to trouble themselves about it, and then publish the answers in a major journal, then I think that something is VERY VERY rotten in the state of Academe.

Michael A Scarpitti
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e-mail mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org Received on Thu Oct 29 1998 - 14:54:22 GMT