Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!freedom!avdms8!jpc From: jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: 180-deg phase shift -- A study in Usenet technical advice Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 91 23:17:05 GMT References: <51184@prls.UUCP> Sender: root@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Super-User) Organization: NASA/MSFC Lines: 20 max@prls.UUCP (Max Hauser) writes: [summary of recent thread on 180-degrees phase shifters] >Preserved in its entirety, this exchange makes an instructive example >about the Usenet, especially when you see the tones of decisiveness and >authority that so many of them took. These exchanges are so neat I will >try to think up some more innocent questions, have them posted, and >watch what ensues. FOR GOD'S SAKE, MAN! HAVE YOU NO COMPASSION FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN? CAN YOU IMAGINE THE MISERY, THE AGONY, THE UNTOLD HEARTACHE WHICH WILL ENSUE WHEN YOU UNLEASH THESE QUESTIONS UPON AN UNKNOWING WORLD? TURN BACK FROM THIS COURSE OF EVIL BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! Say, what was the answer to the question anyway? :-) * 1E6 -- J. Porter Clark jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov