Re: paper on FAQ's

L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk
Thu, 27 Apr 1995 22:18:39 +0100 (BST)

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: > Fascinating. IMO, within ten years such a class will be as useful as
: > a class teaching you how to use a telephone. You don't get a degree
: > in using a telephone. No-one talks of a 'telephome community'.
: >
: You obviously don't work in the telecommunications industry.

And you, sir, don't read signatures.

: I write
: software for telephonic telecommunications systems and I have taken (and am
: still taking) many classes on "how to use the telephone".

'Design' is an interesting interpretation of 'use'.

Brian, would you mind telling us what the scope of your class is? When
discussing the world-wide web, say, does the class stop at what-buttons-
you-click-on-in-the-browser-to-make-it-work or does it go as far as the
design problems - say security issues you need to consider when
writing your own http server?

who rather suspects the former, if not some futile attempt to make sociology
more relevant to technology and therefore more worth spending money on.

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