Shaken Angel wrote:
 
> 2) Possibility -- Most people are as 1) above but some of them have a
> thirst for more -- they just lack the tools and/or the knowledge to get on
> it and learn it and get going.  Perhaps the anticipated resurgence of MCUG
> next semester will provide a catalyst for these poor folks, an information
> resource, an opportunity to hang out and be geekly with other geeks.  This
> I'd like to see.
 
So would I!
 
Let me introduce myself.  I'm one of the "five people at Miami who posts to
Usenet."  I'm a first-year master's student in the philosophy department.
When I arrived here in August and picked my new computer from the bookstore,
I was absolutely ecstatic to discover that I could get PPP.  We didn't have
those kind of "luxuries" at my undergraduate school (Earlham College).  And
now I hear that the Internet services are underutilized here?  Shocking, I
say!
 
I'm not knowledgable enough to be a real geek, but I have been active on
various Usenet newsgroups for some time (including having been a regular on
alt.devilbunnies for three years now), so I suppose that ought to make me a
sort of proto-geek, anyway.  I would welcome the opportunity to meet fellow
computer lovers.
 
> My paranoid sensibilities aside, I think that number two is probably the
> most likely.  Any thoughts from y'all?
 
Unfortunately, I'd say at least some of it is number one (apathy).  At
Earlham, I found that most people whom I tried to introduce to the World
Wide Web just sort of shook their heads and shrugged.  They weren't
interested and thought I was a bit odd for being so enthusiastic.  Trying to
get people into Usenet was even more hopeless.
 
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