Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: magic numbers Message-ID: <292@gymble.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 22:21:22 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.292 Posted: Wed Aug 28 22:21:22 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 03:33:35 EDT References: <745@vortex.UUCP> <500@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <574@oliveb.UUCP> <2084@ukma.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 21 > From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) > Newsgroups: net.news.group > Message-ID: <2084@ukma.UUCP> > > I've been meaning to suggest that net.bizarre is stupid and doesn't live > up to it's original charter. i.e. the general type of posting isn't > bizarre (and, I'm a student of the bizarre) but is basically stupid. > And, it's 100% noise. > > I'm really serious here. So what? If it keeps the ``noise'' out of the newsgroups you read, then it's serving a useful purpose. You're always free to ignore it. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} seismo!umcp-cs!fred