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 >> 
 >> Look, if you want Usenet University to get going then please say so
 >> by POSTING to alt.uu.future.
 >> 

Ok, I'm posting.  alt.uu.future is one of the 8 newsgroups that
I read regularly.  I'm already taking a net course too.  The
subject is "navigating the internet".  I find it hard to
believe that I were one of the 3 people earlier mentioned
as actively interested in the net university, therefore
count us as at least 4.  Also there are hundreds more of
us over in the "navigating the internet" course, which
is being taught in the manner of a network university.

There was a math course being taught here a few weeks
ago, which looked pretty good; however that's not
the topic I'm after.  I need courses on using Unix
utilities; a few months ago I got help on the net
by posting to comp.software-eng, but I was looking
for newsgroups specifically about RCS and make, and
then imake.  In the future I could post a beginner's
tutorial, just one or two lessons, on imake, if there
is sufficient interest.  

There was also a lot of talk -- I'm pretty sure it
was in this exact group, alt.uu.future, about Esperanto.
I think Esperanto is right on but I'm constrained, so far,
to doing work assignments only, on the net, and my
bosses haven't asked me to study Esperanto.  They _have_
asked me -- in effect -- to study Unix utilities such
as RCS and make; so that is what I will study.  Please
start posting idiot's guides or beginner's lessons
on such Unix utilities, and we can begin from there.
Start dumb and catch an audience who needs the help;
and we can build up from there.

The only reason I am not writing 10 times this much,
to newsgroups like this one, is that I have to
justify my time as working on assignments from my
bosses.  If you'll teach what I need to know for
my job, I'll read it (as I'm already reading the
"navigating the internet" lessons); and, if you'll
show some interest in the same topics that I've
already been learning about (such as imake, etc.)
then I'll post what I know.

I didn't think I would have time for this today
but I'm in the middle of a long build, so that's
where I got the time.  I'll tune in every few days, 
anyway.

About the scarf, utopia, self-awarded credits, etc., which
were mentioned earlier (in someone else's message):  
I've had the same experience,
where I put out an idea (not on the net but elsewhere)
and others will discard it as it has not already been
proven in practice.  Most people just aren't interested in ideas.
(Take _that_!)  Maybe we just have to speak a hundred
times to find one listener; and it should get better
as we find each other.  I'm not particularly interested
in scarfs and so on but your recent explanation does
make sense.

My build must be either over by now, or have failed
somewhere, so I'll have to chop this off and get
back into my primary work assignment.  Ciao.

lehman@ames.arc.nasa.gov