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From: npl@whuxlb.UUCP (Nick Landsberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: routing info
Message-ID: <1293@whuxlb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 20:36:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 20:36:08 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Aug-83 02:37:27 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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Just now I read the following in net.unix-wizards:
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Subject: [James E. Kulp <jek@SCRC-VIXEN>: [Jonathan Payne <jpayne@bbn-vax>: Suspendiing login shell]]

From:  Michael B McIlrath <MBM@mit-xx>

Return-path: <jek@SCRC-VIXEN>
Received: from SCRC-HOUSATONIC by SCRC-TENEX with CHAOS; Mon 22-Aug-83 09:07:03-EDT
Date: Monday, 22 August 1983, 09:07-EDT
From: James E. Kulp <jek@SCRC-VIXEN>
Subject: [Jonathan Payne <jpayne@bbn-vax>: Suspending login shell]
To: Michael B McIlrath <MBM@MIT-XX>
Cc: jek@SCRC-TENEX
In-reply-to: The message of 22 Aug 83 08:13-EDT from Michael B McIlrath <MBM at XX>
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Note that I am using "notes" and that the "routing" took more than
one screenful (at 1200 BAUD) before I got to the gist of the message.

***** FLAME ON ********

Which misbegotten excuse for a "news" routing system put all that
cr*p on the top of the message?
This reminds me of the old Rodney Dangerfield line about seeing
a sign in restaurants: "The fish you eat today, slept last night
in Chesapeake Bay".  I don't care what the sleeping habits of the
fish are, I care how it is prepared.  Similarly, I don't care
through how many machines a message went, or if it is a response
to a response to a response, ad infinitum, as long as I can get
to the gist of the message quickly.  Talk about something obviously
"designed by a committee". Sheeesh!

****** FLAME OFF ********