"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- Endnotes

If you followed a link from the thesis text, the yellow arrows will lead you back to the bite you came from.

24	Henry Potts writes in the alt.music.yes FAQ that "any time on alt.music.yes makes it very apparent that Yes fans are highly heterogeneous -- you're never going to eradicate these differences. And don't be scared by all these apparently fractious groups: plenty feel at home in more than one group and the silliness many perceive is preferable to ugly flame wars" -- Potts's own title of a "Supreme Grand Commander for Life, Order of the Panthers" (which 'fights' to defend the Drama album) shows the playful nature of factionalisation.
25	As Gurak writes, "CMC encourages the sharing of community values through a projection of an ethos that is readily identifiable by others on the network" (275).
26	However, lurkers' actions are insubstantial and inconsequential, do nothing to disrupt the Net, and can thus be regarded as irrelevant to the functioning of the Net; this is due to its nature as an immaterial electronic medium.
27	The often curt and direct comments of one frequent a.m.y and r.m.p poster, Steven Sullivan, for example, have so enraged some participants that their blind opposition to Sullivan as they perceive him now brings them to respond with flames regardless of the content of his posts -- see Appendix A.2.

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