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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: The Jargon File -- an apologia
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Date: 26 Mar 91 21:24:20 GMT
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>Talking about horses and barn doors... you held off doing this until the final
>jargon file release (announced as such ahead of time... the intermediate ones
>didn't get sent to comp.misc... and as a result *I* at least never saw them).

I don't think there's much doubt that a lot of people are interested in this
work, nor that a lot of time and effort was put into it. As such, I'm not much
opposed to posting it with the wider distribution, particularly when compared
to the vast volumes of drek on the net as a whole.

Then there's the people like me -- people who earned the name "hacker" before
it became fasionable -- who find the new jargon file to be a waste of valuable
disk space, the very antithesis of what it describes. But then I'm pretty much
in a tiny minority.... :-)

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