Pull the plug -- libraries aren't common carriers

Pat Costigan Pat.Costigan at ccMail-Link.NMMC.Com
Tue Mar 25 15:29:55 EST 1997


     Congratulations, David. I have never seen a more smug response and one 
     fully in keeping with the confused logic of your arguments.
     
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Subject: Re: Pull the plug -- libraries aren't common carriers
Author:  DBurt at ci.oswego.or.us at The-World
Date:    3/24/97 6:19 PM


Wilfred Drew wrote:
     
>I have been watching this whole discussion with great interest and also 
>with disgust.  I see librarians suggesting that we have twowlevels of 
>access to library service.  That makes me sick to my stomache.
     
The nausea you're feeling is only cognitive dissonance.  Once you get 
used to the idea of  diversity in library Internet access, it will pass, 
trust me.
     
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