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From: chongo@nsc.uucp (Curt Noll)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Intro to Csh flame
Message-ID: <350@nsc.uucp>
Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 19:24:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.350
Posted: Fri Aug 19 19:24:06 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Aug-83 23:34:50 EDT
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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The following example is shown in the Seventh Edition, Vol 2c Virtual
VAX - 11 Version  Nov, 1980:

	% mail bill
	I have a question anout csh documentation.
	My document seems to be missing page 5.
	Does a page five exist?
		Bill
	EOT
	%


<< FLAME ON >>
why is Bill sending a letter to himself?  well o.k., so there may be another
but i doubt it.  this example being in the "type this and see" section leads
me to believe that bill=Bill.

why does he start off his letter with "I have a question...".  come on!
that like starting a term paper with:  "This is a term paper about ...".
perhaps bill is in the third grade?

did bill ever stop to look and see if he had a page 6?  maybe if he looked at
his blasted manual and found that 5 and 6 were missing he could send a letter
(to someone other than himself) to get the page, or obtain it from the online
doc?  even if the case was that he only had page 5 missing (say this turkey
bill used a xerox in violation of copyright laws) why did he not just say:
"my csh document has page 5 missing, how can i get a copy of this page if
the such page exists?".  his last remark:  'does page 5 exist?' reads a
little bit on the sarcastic side.  

the profile is a anti-social, sarcastic, short minded third grader who
violates copyright laws at a whim, and talks to himself far too much.
<< FLAME OFF >>

why dont they change this example?

chongo /\../\