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From: lwk@caen.engin.umich.edu (Woody Kellum)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,news.misc,news.software.b
Subject: Re: BOF Announcement - Netnews User Interfaces (yet again)
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Date: 16 Jun 89 20:55:00 GMT
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Reply-To: lwk@caen.engin.umich.edu (Woody Kellum)
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I propose "newsnit" as the label for people who flame on spelling and
grammer, and - get this - ALL THOSE WHO FOLLOW UP to the flame!

In the town of Tonchi in western Japan, there lived 3 young Zen
monks. They decided to take a vow of silence for 3 months. 

All went well for a week.

One day Joe Newsnerd stumbled onto their favorite bulletin board
and sung the praises of MS-DOS Operating Program over Unix
( which he'd tried only once). 

"You blithering twit", replied the first monk, "how can you 
speak so assuredly of that which you know knot?"

Where upon the second monk followed up with the admonition
"You should not have responded to that fellow - now you have
broken your vow of silence that was to be for 3 months. And with
a spelling error at that!

Finally, the third monk (with superior smile) said
"I guess that I'm the only one who has not spoken"

(adapted from "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" by Paul Reps)
-- 
Woody Kellum   Internet:  lwk@caen.engin.umich.edu
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em