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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
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Subject: Re: Doomsday cometh
Message-ID: <262@fear.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 19:54:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: fear.262
Posted: Tue Sep 10 19:54:31 1985
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References: <781@vortex.UUCP> <3568@amdcad.UUCP> <3223@nsc.UUCP> <3658@amdcad.UUCP>
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Summary: Well, that's ONE vote in favor of elitism...

In article <3658@amdcad.UUCP>, phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:

> ....You never said you were sorry you said it. Fine, I don't need
> to be on a network with an insensitive fool like you anyway. Henceforth, 
> AMD does not talk to NSC. Farewell.

It seems that the elitism we all worried about wasn't the problem at
all -- it looks like the big problem is system administrators
choosing news feeds on the basis of personalities.

Phil and Chuqui had a spat, and Phil took all his marbles and went
home, unplugging his uucp connection with nsc as he did so. What a
marvellously mature way of arranging network connections! Next thing
you know, we'll do it on the basis of "my dad can beat your dad" and
"You're funny-looking."

Phil: you're the first one to publicly put elitism into practice. Are
you going to announce a policy of "be nice to Phil or lose your news
feeds," or do you plan to keep going on an ad hoc basis? Or, (please
please please) was it just overreaction to Chuqui's unique prose style?

-- 

		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert