Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Mr. Sykora isn't civil? Mr. Reagan isn't honest? Message-ID: <1340177@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 00:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340177 Posted: Fri Jun 7 00:48:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 02:15:02 EDT References: <617@digi-g.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 15 >/* brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy) / 2:01 pm Jun 4, 1985 */ >The above answers contain as much sense as most of Sykora's postings, >which seem to be of the form: > >quote ::= '>' lettertext; >query ::= "How come?" | "Why is this?" | "Who says?" | "Why not?" ad nauseum; My reply was intended to point out the absurdity of your claim, i.e., that to add no quantification to the term "not helping someone" in this context renders it essentially meaningless. Of course, I didn't expect that you would see the absurdity of it, being that you were the one who posted it. Mike Sykora