Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: parallel sys file entries in C News Message-ID: <1990Aug29.184257.25@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Aug28.123323.2598@robobar.co.uk> <1990Aug28.172106.20512@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 90 18:42:57 GMT In article tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >One thing about this "popular myth" is that it is very useful, Henry, >and I wish you wouldn't attempt to _discourage_ it... The idea of a "local" distribution has merit. The belief that it will automatically do the right thing, everywhere, without attention, on the other hand, is badly misguided. As witness: >Do you know what the intended distribution of >alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork was? C'mon, one guess. Somehow this >person got a notion that Distribution: local meant something... -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry