I received the following paragraph in professional correspondence. I
just thought I would pass it along because of the possible interest
members of this list might have in the statement that it makes.
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Cunliffe <jasonic@worldnet.net> writes:
Jason> Hi Bob,
Jason> When I went to Luxembourg for a 2 day Call-for-Proposals
Jason> intitiation gathering to help pan-european applicants in
Jason> the Libraries sector of Telematics programs, they did not
Jason> even have a single internet terminal available for browsing
Jason> or e-mail. Hundreds of busy people had come from all across
Jason> Europe to find partners and build grant consortiums. All
Jason> they had was a bunch of pin-boards where people were
Jason> supposed to tack up xeroxed notes... This was in the heart
Jason> of the main European Government's administrative buildings!
Jason> They are spending millions of dollars to finance R&D of
Jason> information technologies and on-line services. When I
Jason> suggested providing free internet terminals with printers
Jason> for such occasions at question time - the chairman said
Jason> "Yes that's a very good idea, we didn't think of
Jason> that. Thanks for suggesting it.." This was back in April 95
Jason> and I think things are now changing fast.
Jason> Cheers.\ - Jason
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