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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
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Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 18:21:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 20 18:21:05 1986
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>When people bash notesfiles by whining that they gave us "Orphaned
>Response," I wonder why nobody recalls who gave us entire articles of
>quoted text and "REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE," or postings to
>net.general about lost earrings in the West Parking Lot.
**

Now now, those are caused by uneducated users, not by bugs in the
software, as are the Orphans.  You have some good other points, (even
though they're surrounded by fightin' words like 'bashing' and
'whining') but this is comparing apples to waffles.


				Ron
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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
		seismo!amdahl!fai!ronc  -or-   ihnp4!pesnta!fai!ronc

Oliver's law of assumed responsibility:
	"If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."