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Subject:Re: TECHWR-L chitchat From:Bill Downing <bdowning -at- CTHULHU -dot- CONTROL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 29 Dec 1993 13:11:35 EST
> Saul Carliner sez:
> My personal opinion is that, as long as we focus our professional discussions
> on elementary level subjects, it will be impossible for us to convince
> others that we have more substantive skills to offer.
> I, for one, am *glad* we don't spend all our time here in save-the-watch
> deep discussions. I *like* the chitchat over tools and operating systems
> and even barbecue. I especially value the general venting of spleen that
> goes on here, complaining about how we writers are often undervalued and
> misused.
> I think of this list as a big kitchen table, with all of us hanging around
> it in a daily kaffeklatsch. Sometimes we get serious, but mostly we
> just kibbitz.
Kinda like group therapy in cyberspace (cybergrouptherapy?) :-)
Bill Downing, President Email: bdowning -at- control -dot- com
DOWNING ASSOCIATES, INC.
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