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Internet course

``` Dear Friends of the Red Rock Eater,

Can I ask you a favor?

This term I'm running our department's new advanced Internet class. Our students tend to be very practically minded, so I designed a class that involved a lot of interaction with people on the net. Specifically, I wanted students to be interviewing people about their use of the net, with the goal of articulating the best practices and sharing them with others on the WWW, and building something on the net (like a simple WWW resource) and getting people to criticize it by telling stories about how such a thing might or might not be useful in their own lives.

Well, it's not working out that way. We're having a very difficult time getting people to submit to being interviewed over the net. We get a lot of promises but very little follow-through. This is causing some real unhappiness and wasting a fair amount of time.

Can you help out? We need people who are willing to be interviewed over the net about their net-using practices and how the net fits into their lives. The format is negotiable -- formal survey or informal correspondence. But you have to follow through by answering the questions. We're talking about an hour or so of work, just as if you were being interviewed in person. We also need people who are willing to comment at some length on student WWW projects.

Everyone can help, but we're particularly hoping to get people with some on-line involvement in publishing, public relations, religion, intellectual property law, journalism, feminist activism, and libertarian or Perotista politics.

If you can commit to helping a student in this way, please send a note to the class at com111@issci1.ucsd.edu and tell them who you are, how you're using the net, and how much time you will commit to help them out. Time is wasting after our false starts, so if you can respond right away and help out in the near term then we'll greatly appreciate it.

Thanks very much.

Phil ```

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