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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Net Etiquette
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.011410.13328@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 01:14:10 GMT
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In article <7767@umd5.umd.edu> jkight@is-next.umd.edu (Jeff Kight) writes:
>
>In article <1990Dec24.055248.17417@mp.cs.niu.edu# bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) writes:
>#In article <1990Dec18.050030.7478@daffy.cs.wisc.edu# rdib@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Dib) writes:
>##In article <1374@autodesk.COM# glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes:
>####The NeXT Bible is a well-written book of science fiction.
>##
>##I Agree 100%!!  How can it be called the NeXT Bible?  It should be called
>#
>#     Well, assuming that the book is as described above, one could
>#reasonably call it _The_NeXT_Bible_ as a sort of reference to that
>#well known and much earlier anthology of fiction...
>#
>##"The NeXT Mistake!" 'cause anybody that buys it is just doing that!  
>##
>##-R							   
># [my .sig deleted  --SJB]
>
>I presume you meant to post to alt.religion or alt.philosophy where people
>would care to read your opinion on philosophy.
>
>Please keep it out of newsgroups where it doesn't belong...

     First of all, *I* didn't bring the matter up; it was brought up
apparently indignantly by rdib@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Dib) in a
posting imputing some unfulfilled claim to legitimacy/credibility/
factual basis somehow connected with a book title.  Secondly, I 
apologize to the net for your lack of a sense of humor.  :-)
>
>
>Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, on my understanding of netetiquette
>
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                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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