Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!bnlux0!adelphi!promark!mark From: mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Smileys Vs. Humor Summary: how about it huh???? Message-ID: <46@promark.UUCP> Date: 5 Sep 89 02:17:09 GMT References: <434@tp2.Waterloo.NCR.COM> <2019@avsd.UUCP> Organization: Promark Data Concepts, Garden City, NY Lines: 51 In article <2019@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes: > greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: > > >Richard: it was a joke! > > >Ross M. Greenberg > >UNIX TODAY! 594 Third Avenue New York New York 10016 > >Review Editor Voice:(212)-889-6431 BBS:(212)-889-6438 > >uunet!utoday!greenber BIX: greenber MCI: greenber CIS: 72461,3212 [Bla Bla Bla....] Ya know, I hate spending my money, the universities money, the taxpayers money, and the undergraduate programmers money, who are paying tuition, on telephone costs to receive bickering between an editor, who obviously has more time on his hands than most of us do judging from the sheer bulk of news, and a few other individuals. _One_ of my responsibilities as the Administrator for Adelphi University Mathematics and Computer Science Departmental systems is to keep the various news files, software, etc. up to date. I have very little time to read any news, but consider reading news.all a part of the administration responsibility. I want to thank Ross Greenberg and everyone else for adding 10 miniutes to the news transfer times for all those sites that use UUCP. Hum... 10 min. times X systems @ $Y. I bet it cost more than "pocket money" to support the bickering... oops... I mean intelligent conversation. :-) ^^^^^^ _HUMOR INTENT ABOVE_ Some respected "Old Timers on the net" still worry about the cost of news transfer becoming the downfall of USENET. I have recently been made aware via personal conversation with other sa's that some main COM sites along our feed are complaining about costs. I myself am a very opinionated individual and have resisted the temptation to take a swipe. Others can also. How about it? How about we move it to /dev/null, as well with any flames. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in it's success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. --Niccolo Machiavelli as reproduced by the famous Donald E. Knuth in the Art of Computer programming. -- Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 663-1170 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science markd@adelphi.UUCP or mark@promark.UUCP UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!adelphi!markd