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From: gazit@lear.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: Re: Soc.feminism
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Date: 22 Nov 89 01:11:55 GMT
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In article <22520@gryphon.COM> mhnadel@gryphon.COM (Miriam Nadel) writes:
>This argument with Hillel is not unique to this particular posting.  It has
>come up with him in connection to two other articles.  I (and at least one
>other moderator) think it inappropriate to post articles that merely point to
>a followup having been sent to another newsgroup because they are

The claim that a pointer carries no information is wrong from
data-structure point view.

>information free metadiscussion.  

Metadiscussion?!

That's how you call an two-lines article with no follow-up?

A very interesting definition I must say...