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From: ksb@houxs.UUCP (K.BANDES)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: General Comment on Net.??
Message-ID: <306@houxs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 14:09:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 14:09:35 1985
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> ...  There are those on the net who, with frequent long-winded (and self-
> perceived as incisive) postings, try to psychically stone anyone who says
> anything against their own "accepted" dogmas.  I am glad that Galileo didn't
> have to put up with this sort of thing.  (-:  [I am not naming any names
> because they, and I, and all of you, know exactly of whom I speak.]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Galileo forced to recant his theories
by the church?  I think he had to put up with a lot worse than a few long-
winded folks snapping at one another.  (By the way, the article quoted above
was 100 lines, not long-winded at all.)

Anyway, Galileo did have it better than Giordano Bruno, who was burned at
the stake for suggesting, among other things, that there might be life on
other planets.

I prefer the net to the stake.

Ken Bandes
@ AT&T Information Systems
...ihnp4!houxs!ksb

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(AT&T).


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