Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: The nature of wizards Message-ID: <2711DE69.6BB9@tct.uucp> Date: 9 Oct 90 14:27:53 GMT References: <1990Oct3.024824.13060@eng.umd.edu> <270B296A.17D3@tct.uucp> <1990Oct6.050950.16265@eng.umd.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 19 According to russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto): >In article <270B296A.17D3@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>People of real stature need not be slaves to be helpful. > >Right-- and they have time to constantly answer the same simple (or stupid) >questions over and over and over again. Say, how do you delete a file which >beings with '-'? Prefix it with "./". Any more questions? >Using 'she' to refer to what, for whatever reason, is an exclusively >male group, seems to be dead wrong. "Posters to c.u.wizards" are not the same group as "wizards." You refer to the former; I was (and still am) talking about the latter. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II