From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 24 21:43:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1015AC6 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:43:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from workhorse (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03768; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:42:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000124223555.01bc23a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:42:09 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Reaching the reader (was: UCITA (Important)) Cc: freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <20000124164844.J2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:48 AM 1/24/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: >That wasn't the issue, and I'm tired of trying to explain to you >things that seem obvious to just about everybody else I speak to, so >I'll stop. Good. Please do. >The real question is "will people read it?". That's not up to you or >me: it's up to the readers. Why don't you write your article, and >I'll make an edited version and publish it under a fictitious name. >Then we look at the number of hits we get on each version. Would that >seem a fair indication of how much each version conveys its point? Not at all. The hit comes before the reader has had a chance to assess the article. Therefore, this is a poorly designed experiment. As an author with more than 20 years' experience and more than 1,200 published articles and columns, I think I have a fairly good idea of how to reach the reader. With all due respect, I don't think I need your help. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message