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From: bernerus@chalmers.UUCP (Christer Bernerus)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so...
Message-ID: <426@chalmers.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 22:53:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 22:53:47 1986
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Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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Keywords: net.internat

In article <2390@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) writes:

>Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so...

Did you really mean what you wrote ?

>I just happened to go browsing through our spool directory, and
>I really find it quite amusing to note that in over three weeks, there
>have been only 3 articles posted to net.internat, and two of them were
>items crossposted from net.jokes.  

Hmm, the latest three weeks, let's see, the article was posted on
Friday January 10, 1986. This means that the latest 3 weeks is the
three weeks beginning with Friday December 20 1985.
How many of you out there were on holidays from Dec 20 to Jan 6.
At least I was. And I suspect that most of the people in the christian
part of the world also were on holidays/vacation.
Considering this fact, I dare say that Gene's browsing has only
spanned over 3, maybe 4 effective working days.

>Of course, maybe I missed it.  Maybe all the people who obviously knew
>so much used the group to solve all the international standardization
>problems, using just 120 articles (total we have ever received in the
>group) to do so.  Good job, folks.

My God!
Do you really think that writing articles to USENET SOLVES the problems.
I think that the primary reason for having this newsgroup is
to have a simple and quick way of communicating between a large number
of people in different parts of the world.
The actual SOLVING of the problems won't be done on USENET.

>Gene "the end is in sight" Spafford

"The end of the beginning" maybe...

Chris.