🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 7 Dec 1993 10:32:04 +0000 <STGG8004@IRUCCVAX> said:
>I have been struck, and a little concerned, at the number of postings that
>appear regularly on this list from students seeking basic help with research.
>The recent posting by Jesse Tracey is an example, though I do apologise to
>Jesse because I do realise that s/he is posting on behalf of a friend:
>
>Which prompts the question: how much instruction (and, indeed, how much
>access) do students get these days in using Telnet (for accessing remote
>library catalogues); in using on-line searching of bibliographic
>databases; and for the host of other information science facilities that
>are emerging daily on the computer networks? I would assume that any
>student with access to the newsgroups and the Internet could also have
>access to these other tools?

By posting a message in this group a student, or for that matter a
faculty member, would have access to probably the best resource around..
that being another person.  If you were interested in a topic that
another person writes about, you could probably give specific help, which
would save the person asking a lot of time.  Also, because this message
group is international, there may be new research that is being done,
that has not been published yet.  This may be of interest to someone.

I think that just asking where can I find information on [whatever]
is not worthy of a response, bescause a through search of the local
library and available journals should be done first.

Just my thoughts...
Danny Heuman
dsheuman@vm1.yorku.ca