that email...

[Michael Ledwidge]

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Rachel Polanskis wrote:

> It made the ABC news...
> 
> No matter how distressing the message was, I do hope there is not the
> usual media hype on the "Evil Internet".

Blimey! You can't have it both ways. I would have thought that posting to a 
high-profile mailing list like link counts as media nowadays. The beat-up 
of this issue started here and somewhere someone has demonstrated a 
worthwhile point - this medium is so very ripe for exploitation, even 
amoungst the educated. Words without substance never had so much power.

For the Net to function properly as a tool/environment/workspace for the 
individual then the onus is on that individual to recognise
_lack_ of substance as the double-edged sword it is. Are we really ready 
for all this? I think not.

Cheers,
	.M.

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