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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Net-person of the year
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[Those are seals, captain!]

What good would a "person of the year" award do?  Rank is utterly
meaningless in this ASCII goulash that we call "the Net." There are
indeed LOUD voices on the Net, but no representative voices.  We are
all appreciated or depreciated for what we are.

If you'd prefer this argument in literary form, see "Big Mama's
Funeral," by the inimitable Garcia Marquez.  It's in his collection
_No One Writes to the Colonel._*





*Because my return address happens to be /dev/null?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel