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From: mikes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: FLAME:The purpose of Universities
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Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 20:11:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 20:11:47 1985
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> It's disgusting the way these attitudes have currently created a climate
> where University funds have all but dried up and fat-cats from industry are
> swinging their pocketbooks in ways that only governments should be allowed
> to like drunken sailors in a whorehouse on payday.  Fortunately, not all of
> us are selling and there are still a few decent folks out there (in both
> government and industry) who know why we exist.
> 
> I mean, the next time you need a typist will you suggest that we should be
> producing more typists? Yes, that's how silly you sound, you are just
> blinded by some myopic thinking.
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Yow!!! how about a FLAME warning on the subject line of stuff like this?
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			Michael Shannon {ihnp4,hplabs}!oliveb!3comvax!mikes