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Subject:Relevance (was Video sales) From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:21:00 -0500
Since there have now been a couple of messages lambasting me for doing
something I had told everyone I was going to do several months ago, I
feel I should step in.
Don't go away, Bonnie. I, for one, have little interest in the tapes, so I won't
be ordering any, but I don't mind in the least your posting their availability.
You were right in doing so. It's certainly more germane to the list topic and
audience than probably 75% of the rest of the messages posted here. (Possible
"offended" posters, note please before dumping your outrage on me that I include
some of my *own* posts in that number as well as yours. None of us are perfect.)
Techwr-l gives me two things:
1) It gives me information I need.
2) It gives me enjoyment.
It doesn't deliver either one alone in sufficent quantity to justify the time it
takes to read it. Sometimes the information content is higher, sometimes it's
the fun content. When either one of the two stop completely, it will be of no
further use to me. Those of you who favor such a strict limitation of what gets
posted might do well to remember what "all work and no play" did to poor Jack.
