Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:10220 misc.misc:11433 alt.sources.d:1574 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,misc.misc,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Jargon File Version is 2.7.1 Message-ID: <19093@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 8 Mar 91 00:52:18 GMT References: <19090@rpp386.cactus.org> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 41 X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die. In article writes: >jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: > >(In response to this from eric@snark.thyrsus.com) > >>>I will probably post 2.8.1 in about ten days. > >> Could you please limit it to newsgroups that I don't carry? I am getting >> a bit tired of Jargon File du jour. Is there anyone else that feels the >> same way? Can I get an "Amen" brother? > >Here it is. My apologies for posting in the alt.sources group. Another net.citizen pointed this out to me in e-mail, along with a virtual "Amen". So I have cancelled the alt.sources version. Now - Brothers and Sisters - I feel a rant coming on ... Praise the Lord - I say - Praise the Lord that we have the almighty USENET to spew forth our dribble and noise into the vast cyberwasteland. Yet there are those among us that would waste even this electronic WASTEland of cyberspace with hourly postings of cleverly acculated mindless buzzwords and phrases whose very meanings flutter in the wind, surpassing even the greatest of the bandwidth wasters - the very K*nt Paul Dolan himself - in their ability to post and repost that which surely was posted several times too many within one or two postings of having been posted in the first place. And now I ask of YOU - what will YOU do to stop this mindLESS consumption of your precious number system lest the next version of that very document consume the last of the Really Big Numbers just before the government runs out of money again and is unable to borrow still more money because those very same Really Big Numbers are too busy being used to tell the tale of one to many Jargon File postings? -- John F. Haugh II | Distribution to | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 | GEnie PROHIBITED :-) | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "I've never written a device driver, but I have written a device driver manual" -- Robert Hartman, IDE Corp.