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From: bjg@im4u.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Random Thoughts
Message-ID: <363@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 01:50:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: im4u.363
Posted: Wed Jul 31 01:50:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 06:22:12 EDT
References: <362@im4u.UUCP>
Reply-To: bjg@im4u.UUCP (Bart J. Geraci)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 37
Keywords: birdcages, derivatives, duck

Summary:
Followup-To:

[You take a line and dip it in a mixture of flour, pepper, herbs, ....]

    Pretty much of net.bizarre has been making sense. But then I looked
    at "Random Thoughts" (number 62). Interesting....

***FLAME ON****

    I protest this nonsense. Even though this is net.bizarre, there is no
    room for 20-odd lines of pure gibberish. Whatever happened to
    constructive, well-written English phrases?

    What I'm afraid of is that this letter will let everyone post their
    favorite 20/50/2500 lines of pure drivel. And then people will be
    showing off their favorite AI text generation program. They'll be
    saying, "Look. If it can be accepted by net.bizarre, it's a form of
    English that is understood by many humans." Not only should articles
    make sense, but it should be humorous (or informative) as well.

    Keep up with the pictures. Keep up with the quest for the perfect
    description of this newsgroup
    (aside)
	How about:   net.bizarre        "X <> X" spoken here.
    (end aside).

    But do not let any more people just ramble on endlessly. Stuff like
    that belongs to /dev/null.

    And to the poster, I chant the 3rd vilest epithet I can think of.
***FLAME OFF****

				bj
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