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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re:Re: what time is it?
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 09:54:13 EST
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I have yet to see any profound replies to the original query. Everyone
seems to be skimming the surface.
What time is it indeed.
Of course the author knows the clock time. It is the TIME for which he
seeketh.
It is time to stop wasting the net's time with sill-assed experiments
on net.general.
It is time that intelligent adult net commissars renamed net.general
to something that doesn't suggest net.everything.goes.
(even net.general.interest would be an improvement)
It is time we stopped making an understanding of the spirituality of
net.general part of the usenet "rites of passage."
It is time that we realized that there is no such thing as an article
of interest to literally everyone on the net from Alice to Timbuctu.
We should settle for P=0.5 of interest to 0.5 of the population, which
means it is OK if it is not of interest to ME. (Oh, God, it hurts, it
hurts, but I guess it's necessary)

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"It's the thought, if any, that counts!"  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg