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From: hamish@mate.sybase.com (Just Another Deckchair on the Titanic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: comp.unix.wizards-in-their-own-minds
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Date: 28 Feb 91 21:18:07 GMT
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In article <22886@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastc2@prism.gatech.EDU (Benjamin H. Cowan) writes:
>
>  I encourage anybody who can read this message to post every question
>concerning UNIX that they can think of to this newgroup.  It does not matter
>if it is simply or complex.  I just absolutely love to see all the 
>electionically-inflated egos just get so bent over backwards in a childish
>uproar just because somebody invaded their private sanctum with what they
>think is a stupid and meaningless question.

You haven't really got it yet, have you?
 
It's the dumb *answers* that tend to get flamed, the classic
"I-haven't-really-tested-this-yet-but- my-brother's-friend-once-said-
it-worked-for-his-system" responses (see some of the sillier answers
to the recent "I have a filename with a dash in it and I want to
remove it" for examples of this.

	Hamish
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