From: nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Christopher Chu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: SCV MONTHLY -- Thanks to Chris
Summary: Thannks for positive comments
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:54:44 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver

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| Dear Hoa`nh,                                                           |
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| Thank you for you comments on SCV MONTHLY Special Issue Aril 92.       |
| It is my pleasure to learn that you show a perspicacious look at       |
| SCV MONTHLY. Your (and others's) comments are real encouragements      |
| for me.                                                                |
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| From the data that I posted, I hope that netters may find ineresting   |
| information. I somtimes look at the alphabetical order list of authors |
| at the node uicvm. For some reasons, I found that uicvm was very       |
| interesting. And I am sure that you could also find those periodic     |    
| and strange addreses on SCV. Currently, these are being mailed to me   |
| by computer programs for my review every month.                        |
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| Hektor N from Cheveron asked me what those SCV MONTHLY lists were      |
| for and I have responded with the article below. I think that it is    |
| appropriate to post my response (with some modifications) here.        |
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| Again, thanks for your encouragements, dear Hoa`nh.                    |
|                                                                        |
| Sincerely,                                                             |
|                                                                        |
| Chris Chu, nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Internet), att!drutx!nguyen (UUCP)    |
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| FROM:       nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM                                           |
| TO:         lhdsy1!usho90.hou281.chevron.com!hhekt@uunet.UU.NET            |
| DATE:       14 Apr 1992   9:49 MDT                                         |
| SUBJECT:    Re: SCV MONTHLY - APRIL 1992 - SPECIAL ISSUE                   |
| REFERENCES:  <9204141354.AA01912@usho90.hou281.chevron.com>                |
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| Dear Hektor A. Nguyen,                                                     |
|                                                                            |
| Thank you for your note concerning SCV MONTHLY.                            |
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| The SCV MONTHLY - SPECIAL ISSUE that I've posted is to let you know more   |
| about our friends who have been writing on SCV since March 92. These list  |
| tell the number of articles each author has contributed; I am sure that    |
| many authors night not maintain this information themselves. These lists   |
| also tell the number of computer accounts one might have used but did not  |
| notice. Consequently, the provided information may be used to monitor      |
| one's activities on SCV. For example, you may not want to post more than   |
| 10 articles a months; SCV MONTHLY tell you whether you have achieved your  |
| goal each month.                                                           |
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| You can also use these information to find out the interesting subjects    |
| that SCVers have been fond of. You may scan the list of poems, songs to    |
| rapidly find out which have been talked about or posted on SCV. You may    |
| also use these information to estimate trends of posting on SCV. We may    |
| use these information to create SCV special subgroups. If you are doing a  |
| PhD. dissertation in Sociology, investigating vietnamese group             |
| interactions, you may use these information to narrow down you topic and   |
| to select subjects for your sample.                                        |
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| You may use the information provided at the beginning of the list to       |
| estimate SCV volume and average number of articles per days; so that you   |
| will not be surprised that a response to an article posted yesterday       |
| will come after roughly how many articles. And there are much more ...     |
| depending upon your ability to use and relate these information to SCVers  |
| and their activities.                                                      |
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| In general, SCV MONTHLY - SPECIAL ISSUE is to let SCVers to be more        |
| conscious about SCV people and their activities. The least thing I can     |
| do with these information right at this moment is: I can say that that you |
| have never posted on SCV since March 07, 92. If you have, obviously under  |
| different aliases, you may also find out how many aliases that you have    |
| used and how many times that you have posted on SCV yourself. I have not   |
| provided likage access between the set of SCV authors and their activities |
| but SCV monthly does maintain these information. If provided, these info   |
| would complete an instanteneous operational definition of SCV by the time  |
| of its posting.                                                            |
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| Again, thank you for raising your concerns. If you have any further        |
| questions or ideas, please do not hesitate to write me.                    |
|                                                                            |
| Sincerely,                                                                 |
|                                                                            |
| Chris Chu, nguyen@drutx.ATT.COM (Internet), att!drutx!nguyen (UUCP)        |
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| From: 0003752801@mcimail.com (Hoanh Dinh Tran)                            |
| Subject: SCV MONTHLY -- Thanks to Cris                                    |
| Date: 14 Apr 92 15:01:13 GMT                                              |
| Reply-To: 0003752801@mcimail.com                                          |
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| Hi Chris,                                                                 |
|                                                                           |
| I'd just like to say that I'm  impressed with your                        |
| efforts in tabulating SCV articles monthly. The tabulation                |
| gives a good topography of the SCV landscape in a quick glance.           |
| The SCV picture is now  much clearer than ever before.                    |
| Many thanks, Chris.                                                       |
|                                                                           |
| By the way, you do have quite a large fan club.                           |
| Are you cool and breezy then most of the time?                            |
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Yac ... I want to be informal and have some fun here, is that OK? (I am not
a serious person, am I?) I love to talk freedom and democracy, too ... But I
just could not convert voice to words as fast (and much and well) as I really
want to. I gave up on those stuffs ... They took me too much time to while
I could only produce very little on them!!!
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| Have a good day, Chris.                                                   |
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| Me^'n                                                                     |
| Hoa`nh                                                                    |
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Do you go to beach, dear Hoa`nh ??? Hi` hi` ... DO not forget you
SUN glasses and Skin protection lotion ... I can't wait for my vacation
(my my, it costs ...)