Hello,
I think that is really hard to show the relation of smart/not smart people and certain forms of using the internet. I believe that it is rather a generational gap. This is how it works with young folks: -I don't drive my grandfathers car and also I don't use usenet -I don't wear my fathers clothes and I don't use wikitext -I listen to the newest music and I use nice AJAX interfaces. Because as all my friends do. And unrelated to all this, I can still be either smart or dumb.
Best Mihály
On 13 February 2012 19:22, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
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From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com
Well, all those people left Usenet for message boards. And look how healthy Usenet is now!
The groups I always hung out on are, by and large, just as useful now as they were then.
All *which* people left? The smart, thoughtful ones who could write proper english? Not IME.
I'd suggest that Usenet isn't a good example of what we want to happen.
I'd suggest that you're not using a fine enough glass to look.
Cheers,
-- jra
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