From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!cbosgd!cad
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Enough About Engineers
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3361
Posted: Tue Mar 29 22:34:58 1983
Received: Wed Mar 30 05:44:19 1983


My aren't we clever!  I am referring to the inane correspondence
being carried on between cbosgd!jcg (whom I don't recall ever seeing
around these parts) and rabbit!lucius concerning the educational level
and emphasis of engineers being carried on in this newsgroup.  As I see
it, we have here a case of two pig-headed individuals (if they are indeed
people and not bizarre AI projects, or something similar) arguing a point
that doesn't apply to either one of them.  

The original point seemed to be "some engineers have little regard
for the proper use of English."  This point, though distasteful to well-
lettered engineer types (both antagonists seem to fall into this category)
is hardly worth the effort expended by these two.  Just read net.flame for
awhile and you can see that there are clearly two types of net readers --
those that don't give a *&^@^% about the use of English and those that
do.  In the population of all netnews readers, if such a bifurcation of
opinion holds true, then it is quite reasonable to assume the same is
true for the "engineer" types who are a large proportion of that population.

What this means, clearly, is that the original point stated above,
is, in all likelihood, vacuously true and not worth debate.  I can
only conclude that both rabbit!lucius and cbosgd!jcg are carrying
on this discussion, either for the sake of the thrill they receive by
reading their own "incredibly witty" submissions or by some bizarre mutual
agreement on their part to conspire to waste our time, or both.

Enough said.  Every concerned reader of net.movies should post mail to
one or both of these perpetrators expressing your disgust at their folly.
And they may rest assured that any further articles in this group from either
of them will get a quick tap of the 'n' key from this terminal!

			Striving to make the net useful,
			---> Chuck A DeGaul <---