Steven’s post calling Blake “the new cranky old man,” inheriting the title from Walt, just doesn’t sit all that well with me. I really think that different people use technologies differently, just as people have different learning styles. Stephen Abram has written and spoken voluminously on the latter topic. More to the point, dividing up the information professional community into old and young is counter-productive. That’s more or less what I said in my editorial to be published in the July/August 2005 issue of ONLINE .

And, yes, reiterating Walt’s comment on Steven’s post, listserv is trademarked. In print, I use the phrase “discussion list” instead.