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From: M.J.Ratcliffe@bris.ac.uk
Subject: Re: how the internet affects traditional readership
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Michele Maggi <maggimic@mbox.vol.it> wrote:
>I am working on a study regarding the effects of the development of the internet and the 
>changes in the way people approach the traditional media.
>Which is the feeling of using the internet in comparison to the feeling using traditional 
>printed media.
>Your opinion or any already existing study would be highly appreciated.
>
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>pls email to maggimic@mbox.vol.it

My opinion on using the internet for research is that it can save a lot 
of time waiting for references if papers are available electronically. At 
Bristol, we have to pay for inter-library loans, so electronic copies 
save us money as well. The downside is that it can take half-an-hour to 
find a reference (if it exists on the WWW) as opposed to five minute4s 
filling in a form and letting the librarians do the searching. The 
positives outweight the negatives comfortably, though. 

Another bonus is that world experts appear sometimes to be willing to 
devote a considerable amount of time to answer what must be - to them - 
fairly trivial questions. This is particularly true of comp.ai.neural-
nets, so thanks to all the experts concerned. 

Another problem (for me) is being side-tracked, by writing replies to 
questions such as this one(!) for example. This is always more 
interesting than ones actual work...

Max

