Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:5693 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:14274 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:558 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: More routing question information Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 22:33:37 GMT References: <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM> <75110373@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3882@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: aro@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: teachk In-reply-to: dww@stl.stc.co.uk's message of 1 Jan 91 22:55:20 GMT On 1 Jan 91 22:55:20 GMT, dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) said: dww> In the referenced article tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: pcg> In article pcg> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: tneff> Excuse me, but what in the world is an "Internet-USENET gateway"? tneff> I would not ordinarily object to casual misuse of the basic tneff> mail/news terminology, but when someone of Piercarlo's stature tneff> gets it wrong, and bases an entire long argument on it, I have to tneff> wonder what he really means. Please note the (gentle, and well accepted) irony: the paragraph above can be read "Piercarlo's entire argument makes no sense whatever because it is based entirely on totally inappropriate terminology". It can also be read in many other ways. I like this style. I like less this style: dww> I shouldn't worry about it - or anything else that Piercarlo posts. dww> It is his normal way to almost totally misunderstand a situation, dww> build a whole false edifice based on a small grain of truth, then dww> post polemics complaining that the situation he has imagined is dww> wrong. [ ... and worse ... ] This is called humour-impairment, man. Cool your jets :->. As to whether there is really something strange in the water in Aberyswyth, let the readership beware. I am quite sure that they can make up their own minds. Networks are a very political thing, and everybody knows, or ought to know, that. Maybe not everybody knows that I have no interest whatsoever in these politics except intellectual curiosity and concern over an important aspect of the field which I have chosen for my career. I am not selling anything here -- I am just a wary customer. Others cannot say the same. Rubbishing other people's reputation in the extravagant way you use demonstrates little diplomatic sense. Or maybe you want to become a celebrity -- maybe one day it will be possible to prove attribution, and then you make history by being the first person to lose a million pounds thanks to a posting. Keep trying :->. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk