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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Press parasites? Net parasites
Message-ID: <1600@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 18:03:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  6 18:03:18 1986
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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP
> >     o "I've watched the videotape, and it seems to me..." -- A lot of
> >     immediate experts have watched the tapes and have solved all of 
> > mankinds
> >     problems. Hell, I watched the video tapes as well, and I certainly
> >     didn't see stuff that obvious. The people who BUILT the thing watched
> >     the tapes, and it doesn't seem like they say it, either. Let's tone 
> > down
> >     the backseat quarterbacking a bit and try to work with facts, shall we?
> > [Chuq Von Rospach] ...sun!chuq

> One of the ways to work through the horror one may feel following a disaster
> is to try to come to some understanding of (or even only speculation about)
> its cause -- to try to make some sort of sense of the events.  I don't see
> how this is at all unreasonable.
> [Ken Montgomery] ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm

While Chuq doesn't need defending, I do want to address this.  I don't
think anyone would object to you, or me, or even Chuq if one of us were
to sit and watch the videos over and over.  That may be what we need to do
to 'come to some understanding'.  BUT it is something else entirely to
flood the net with speculation on the order of "my mother-in-law says she
thinks that it's obvious that . . ."
   Maybe that sort of garbage makes you feel better, but you don't have to
do it in public, do you?  I agree with Chuq:  let's keep quiet unless we
have something to say.  If we all do that, we'll still have lots of 
postings, only maybe they'll be more substantive.

Sincerely,-- 
T Cox
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