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From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Use of net.puzzle
Message-ID: <7221@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 03:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 03:44:00 1985
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Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2052@uvacs.UUCP> dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards) writes:
>I am not always in tune with netiquette and how and why people use the net.
>Do people who post puzzles do so in the spirit of a ice-breaker or are they
>really looking for the best answer or better, are they looking for 
>references.   I prefer the latter, but I am a stick in the mud sometimes.
>[.....]
    I was puzzled by this myself; almost all of the puzzles i've
seen on net.puzzle are well known (to me anyway) so i conclude either
i know many more puzzles that a whole lot of people (unlikely) or
net.puzzle is to be used for ice-breakers, and that's the way i
treat it, i only post a solution if the problem is pretty difficult 
or obscure and no one else has after a long period. Any consense here?
-- 
Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
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