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Havachatwithhexy... 18-Feb-2005 At 10:03:34 AM Bourge

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As Kent's aneurism the other day shows, the cyber-medium is a very fragile one - the 'archives' can be wiped at any time - a user can delete all their posts if they get skittish.

The printed medium therefore still retains it's attraction, as the pile of climbing mags in the dunny will attest to, but the cyber-climbing-feeding-frenzy provides us with the 'quick fix' that gets us through the Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec. The Rock provides us with delayed gratification.

But the two media really are different. One facilitates interaction and is a medium for conversation, an easier form of email. In the other, we take what we are given, what Baxter feeds at the quarterly feeding time and our responses are selected and vetted.