Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:34:27 -0700

From: Daniel Kies Kies[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WI.NET

Subject: Re: Beware the flood....



Daniel Long wrote:



It's not the thought of a possible flood of irrelevant and uninformed

QUESTIONS that frightens me. It's that we'll have even more uninformed

answers than we do now. ...

I wonder if medical research lists are clogged up with people sharing

their "theories" about babies being brought by the stork, and it being

possible for women to become pregnant from drinking after a man, etc.?



Danny Long



Danny Long is exactly right. I too am amazed by some of the postings to

the list. However, since many of us are educators, and since we all care

about language, shouldn't we think of this "flood" as an opportunity to

create a forum in which we can distribute good information about language

to the cyber-public?



Just a thought.



Dan

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College of DuPage

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