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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Sep 1996.
Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.

Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.

mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

>And I must actually agree with you on this concern.  With my current 
>experience in Computer Science there has been very little done to 
>draw attention to this (mis-)use of the extended ASCII-set.  

>Well, there has been little coverage of the Internet itself at all.  
>(explicit coverage, that is.)  The problems of incompatibility of 
>Internet protocols has only been discussed in any depth in one 
>third-stage course, rather the focus is almost wholly on programming 
>problems in a single-platrorm LAN (Local Area Network) environment.  
>(Even then, the LAN is ignored most of the time.)  

>Is this the sort of thing to be ignored with the current growth trends 
>of the internet?  Bearing in mind many of these students will be 
>taking a hands-on role in its future.  For a network that has its 
>origins so closely intertwined with these institutions, surely it 
>should be better acknowledged by them.  

>But hey, that's just my opinion.  

It is a serious deficiency in the Computer Science curriculum in my
view. I do not have infuence to get this remedied but I may know
some people who do have influence. Shall I stir it up ?  :-)

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
Date: 1996/09/02
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