From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 25 12:53: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31184151BA for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id HAA41970; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:22:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 07:22:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: Reaching the reader (was: UCITA (Important)) Message-ID: <20000126072208.B41924@freebie.lemis.com> References: <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> <20000124164844.J2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000124223555.01bc23a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000124223555.01bc23a0@localhost> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 24 January 2000 at 22:42:09 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:48 AM 1/24/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. You're welcome to suggest a better one. > 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. I know authors with more than 50 years' experience who are complete failures. Time doesn't equate to ability. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message