4.0673 A Word for A Vice (6/53)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 31 Oct 90 23:16:59 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0673. Wednesday, 31 Oct 1990.
(1) Date: 30 Oct 90 05:43 -0330 (5 lines)
From: HANS ROLLMANN (hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca)
Subject: RE: New Word
(2) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 20:24:52 EST (9 lines)
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)
(3) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 22:06 EST (9 lines)
From: <JELLEMA@HOPE>
Subject: RE: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
(4) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 00:29:01 EST (14 lines)
From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA
Subject: New word, please
(5) Date: Wednesday, 31 Oct 1990 01:01:35 EST (6 lines)
From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@WVNVM>
Subject: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
(6) Date: 31 Oct 90 03:43 -0330 (10 lines)
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: RE: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 05:43 -0330
From: HANS ROLLMANN (hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca)
Subject: RE: New Word
There is a book around, which lists all conceivable networks and
databases. Its title might serve as a possible term to describe what
Willard is after: INFOMANIA. Another possible contender, describing
--not the thrust of empirical abandonment in the field of communcation
and information-- but the result of the "overload", could be INFOSATIA.
HANS ROLLMANN.
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 20:24:52 EST
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0652 Qs: Theory of Taste; Word for a Vice (2/54)
For Willard:
"Infomania" is a word I have seen used to name the condition you describe.
John Unsworth
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 22:06 EST
From: <JELLEMA@HOPE>
Subject: RE: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
"Infomania" seems to have forged ahead in the first nationwide
poll. I offer the following cautionary note, however, based on
my own very recent experience. When I confronted Felicia the Fact
Freak, my colleague, and asked, "Are you an infomaniac?" she slugged
me on the ear. The left one.
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 00:29:01 EST
From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA
Subject: New word, please
Willard writes:
"I need a word... that denotes the pathological need for information --
what to hunger is gluttony, what to sexual desire is lust...
'Infomange' is the best I have been able to come up with..."
Infomania? Infoitis?
Dana Paramskas
University of Guelph, Ont. Canada
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Date: Wednesday, 31 Oct 1990 01:01:35 EST
From: "Patrick W. Conner" <U47C2@WVNVM>
Subject: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
DATAPHAGIA for the act; DATAPHAGIAC for the actor; DATARRHEA for the
consequences of overindulging in dataphagia.
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Date: 31 Oct 90 03:43 -0330
From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: RE: 4.0658 R: A Word for a Vice (9/84)
In the mailing I received regarding Willard's word search, my reply is
listed but not printed. Something must hacve gone wrong in the editing
process. Plse re-post. In case you lost the text. I said that
INFOMANIA seemed to be a good choice for the activity and INFOSATIA
one for the result of empirical abandonment to communication and
information. HANS ROLLMANN (hans@kean.csu.mun.ca)