I presume so. She did not get back to say what happened. But the replies did present her with ideas and alternatives and pointers to more information and people. Many of us approach the very idea like the farmer who approach the telephone for the first time way back when it was introduced . We have come a long way now.
People now talk of whole communities being built on the net .
It does so because the network enables new forms of communication. The most obvious example of these new digital communications media is electronic mail, but there are many others. We should begin to think of mailing lists, newsgroups, file and document archives, etc. on the internet as just the first generation of new forms of information and communications media. The digital media of computer networks, by virtue of their design and the enabling technology upon which they ride, are fundamentally different from the now dominant mass media of television, radio, newspapers and magazines. Digital communications media are inherently capable of being more interactive, more participatory, more egalitarian, more decentralized, and less hierarchical.