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From: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman M Yarvin)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Reading other people's mail
Message-ID: <2613@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 10:18:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 10:18:10 1986
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> In article <11414@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
> >In article <132@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
> >>How do the rest of you system administrators feel?  Is it within your
> >>rights to open other people's mail?
> >
> >I'm supposed to keep the system running without looking at the files?
> 
> I've been following this discussion (none too closely, I admit) and
> I think some people are making a fundamental equation which just
> doesn't hold up;
> 
> e-mail ==  ordinary paper mail (or snail mail!)
> 
> Perhaps a better equation would be
> 
> e-mail == telephone communication

An even better one would be 

e-mail(on Usenet) = a piece of paper that you give to one friend to hand to
		    another
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		Norman Yarvin
	(seismo!umcp-cs | ihnp4!whuxcc | allegra!hopkins) !jhunix!ins_anmy

 "We all know what UNIX is.  It's an operating system with no dick,
  so it can't screw you."