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From: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: Proposal for changes to the newsgroup creation guidlines.
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Date: 17 Oct 89 23:41:36 GMT
References: <14718.2538b6f4@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <BBC.89Oct17025321@nysa.rice.edu>
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In the referenced article, Benjamin Chase <bbc@rice.edu> writes:
>Bob Sloane <sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> presents a proposal:

[ ... ]

>                                   A user-interface expert (such as
>the guy with whom I share an office) would say that your wildcard
>specifications are "too unixy".  Perhaps you've been using Unix and
>its syntax for regular expressions for so long that you don't even see
>this possibility?

Pardon me as I add to the noise here, but I had to chuckle over this.
Kuhub is a VMS system, and Bob is the resident VMS guru.  "Too unixy?"
VMS?  Ha!

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