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From: ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin)
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Subject: Re: StarDate: March 14 A Toast to Einstein
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 19:57:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 19:57:53 1986
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> > Am I the only one who finds the tripe
> > emanating from "StarDate" to be often annoying?
> > 
> > ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
> 
> Am I the only one who finds complaints about a free service annoying?
> -- 
> Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
[]
   My feelings exactly! There are those of us who enjoy reading the StarDate
articles...without them I would have missed several events that I enjoyed
a great deal.  Mr. Gene Ward Smith, there are those of us out here in netland
who have the ability to read what is on the screen and get information out of
it, rather than nit-picking the "tone" in which the information is displayed.
If you find it so annoying, why not just skip the article?  I find it rather
pleasant to read StarDate and I enjoy the tone of it also since I am not an
expert in astronomy and have been rather annoyed at the tone of other articles,
those from the experts who assume that everyone else is as learned as they are.
    And by the way, being of Italian descent, tripe is one of my favorite
dishes...

-- 
     Adrian Zannin
     SUNY at Buffalo Computer Science

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