Re: quick thoughts on the topic....

[wedge@usa1.com (Glenn Ellingson)]

>3) Schools - traffic school, truck driving school, massage school, need I go
>on. Tbird and I thought of over 50 cases in about 2 minutes. Don't like broad
>topics, generic debates or topicality. This topic means no other choices.

The question: huh? I'm sorry, but I don't understand your remarks here,
Tim. In case I'm not alone, could you clarify to the list?


>4) Sorry if Josh posted this already and I missed it but what is the
>definition of 'computer mediated communication'. Do those words appear in the
>literature?

The answer: sorry that I don't have any of my literature right in front of
me at the moment (I'm researching in this area right now...), but in short:
yes, this term _is_ in the literature, and it means pretty much what you
would think -- all forms of communication using computers. The paradigm
case is email, other things clearly included are forms of listservs,
newsgroups, web traffic, etc. Voicemail stored digitally, voice & image
comm over the Web, and such things are not discussed much in the literature
(in part presumably b/c they are very new, even relative to email) but
would probably be included, even if they differ in fx from email.

>7) Right now I'm leaning toward 'export restrictions' being the best topic of
>the bunch. 

If I get the time (which I probably won't) I'd like to analyze this topic
in more detail; my initial reaction is it's fairly well-constructed,
although I would have thought it would work betterthe other way around
(less restriction) given the large amount of restrictions we have now (I
believe). I'm also more personally interested in the
domestic-promotion-of-info-tech topic, but that's not for any objective
reason, just my personal dislike for the tech export subject area.

>8) Bob Lechtreck is right when he says the impact of getting a couple of
>these topics is so bad that it isn't worth taking the risk that we might get
>one the good one.

Isn't the process to just put the Mexico topic in some position on the
ballot, mixed in somehow w/ the info tech topics? So, people could list (in
order) the infotech topics they like, then the Mexico topic, then the
censorship topic :-).

-- Glenn/NIU

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