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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>   Incidentally, I am very, very tired of the old accusation that "students"
> don't contribute to the Usenet, but "professionals" do; that "students" don't
> know enough for their postings to be relevant, but "professionals" do; that
> people who haven't been around the Usenet since its creation don't have a say
> in anything that happens on it, but that the old-timers always do.  Give me a
> break.

Heh.  An example:  I'm an undergraduate Physics major, and for the
last year and a half have been maintaining and (when necessary)
moderating the SPACE Digest, the non-USENET side of the newsgroup
sci.space; When Ted Anderson (a professional) left CMU, he asked
for volunteers from the set of CMU subscribers to the Digest and its
companion "best-of" magazine (which I and another undergraduate, Jon
Bennett (jb7m+@andrew.cmu.edu), now moderate).

It's foolish to generalize about *any* group, except about the
definitions of said group.  Happening to be taking classes and working
towards a degree (and probably young -- I'm 20, 19 when I took over
the Digest and Magazine) does not imply that a person will be
irresponsible and/or immature.

And, as DDMI has recently dramatically illustrated, being a
professional does not guarantee that one will not be a bozo.
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Todd L. Masco   |  tm2b+@{andrew.cmu.edu,andrew.bitnet}  |  "Boxes."