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In article <BxIBM0.Fo4@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, esz001@cck (Will Overington) writes:
>>"Usenet" refers to the global conferencing network used as a medium or
>>one of the media for Usenet University, as well as the "spirit" of UU
>>- UU is open to anyone who can access it, free for expressing ideas,
>>is quite a bit anarchistic in nature, and thus as Usenet newsgroups UU
>>will be what the participants cause it to be.
>>

>Surely "anarchistic" implies being opposed to the existing ways of
>doing things in existing universities, which is simply not what uu
>is about.

I don't think "anarchistic" implies such.  In any case I didn't mean
to imply that when writing the paragraph - what I meant with
"anarchistic" here is more like "lack of hierarchy, lack of central
administration".

>I feel that the phrase "is quite a bit anarchistic in nature" is
>wrong and should be replaced with something such as
>
>"is a venue for novel thoughts about learning"

I changed the paragraph to read:

"Usenet" refers to the global conferencing network used as a medium or
one of the media for Usenet University, as well as the "spirit" of UU
- UU is open to anyone who can access it, free for expressing ideas,
is a bit anarchistic (meaning no central administration and no
hierarchy) in nature, and thus as Usenet newsgroups UU will be what
the participants cause it to be - hopefully a functioning open venue
for novel thoughts and ideas about learning and other topics.

Is this better?  More changes needed?

//Jyrki