Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!mcnc!rock.concert.net!sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov!fty
From: fty@sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: Name (mis-)recogition
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.153034.24419@rock.concert.net>
Date: 12 Jun 91 15:30:34 GMT
References: <676362452.36@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> <550@equinox.unr.edu> <1991Jun11.180846.6779@kithrup.COM> <1991Jun12.131712.20123@ns.network.com>
Sender: news@rock.concert.net
Organization: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Lines: 25

Really?  I thought CDC was the "Center for Disease Control" !

*smirk*

>In article <1991Jun12.131712.20123@ns.network.com>, robp@gumby.network.com (Rob Peglar) writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.180846.6779@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>>
>>One of those lame FidoNet sites is dumping old news articles again; it
>>changes the Message-Id and From: line.  The person or program responsible
>>also seems to be pretty stupid:  comp.sys.cdc is not about CD's, it's about
>>Control Data Corp's systems.
>
>Well, I won't pass judgement so strongly on the unfortunate poster.
>
>I just hope there isn't anything subliminal in the poster's mistake;
>thinking comp.sys.cdc is a newsgroup for discussion of compact discs
>is either as Sean has it, or the unfortunate lack of public perception
>of the three-letter acronym CDC.  I give you that the poster would not
>have made the same mistake for a comp.sys.ibm being a newsgroup devoted
>to discussion of something other than the computer systems produced by
>International Business Machines.
>
>BTW, DAH, how'z MIPS?

cheers - Frank