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From: nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri)
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Subject: Re: Black Hole, we hardly new ya'
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Date: 3 Oct 90 00:18:47 GMT
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In article <NAYERI.90Oct2175829@ibis.cs.umass.edu> nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) writes:

   In article <90272.095637SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes:

      In article <0b0CBPi00WBNE2Z9cw@andrew.cmu.edu>, wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M.
      Bumgarner) says:
      >
      >I don't know-- I kind of like the Recycling bin concept.
      >
      >A black hole implies permanent oblivian.
      >
      >The recycling bin implies that your going to take the old bits and
      >recycle them into something new and useful (in this case, free disk
      >space)...
      >

   Maybe it is because deleting a file on the WORM is like putting it in
   permanent oblivion (the bits I mean), but same is not true for a hard drive!I
   haven't seen the creature, just making some (probably dumb) speculation.

Sorry about this bugos message! I am not sure where I left my brain today 8-| 
I guess it was a dumb speculation after all. --farshad
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Farshad Nayeri                Object Oriented Systems Group
nayeri@cs.umass.edu           Dept. of Computer and Information Science
(413)545-0256                 University of Massachusetts at Amherst