Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!amdahl!fai!ronc From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Abuses of news.misc Message-ID: <550@fai.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 20:33:10 EST Article-I.D.: fai.550 Posted: Mon Dec 8 20:33:10 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Dec-86 11:34:57 EST References: <8612040701.AA14267@jade.berkeley.edu> <490@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc. Lines: 25 In article <490@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) writes: >In article <8612040701.AA14267@jade.berkeley.edu> eyal@wisdom.BITNET (Eyal mozes) writes: >> >>Let me recount a few relevant facts, which may not be known to those >>who don't subscribe to talk.philosophy.misc. [blither bilther] > > Let me recount a few not necessarily relevant facts for those of you >who don't subscribe to talk.philosophy.misc. [more of the same] Anyone else get the impression that news.misc has become an extension of talk.philosophy.misc? Sounds to me like this whole discussion is a rather thin excuse for a few rabid philosophers to shout their favorite pet theory to those of us who wouldn't read talk.philosophy.misc on pain of death. I mean jeeeze... Talk about starved for attention. Ron -- 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."