Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!oberlin!rice
From: rice@oberlin.UUCP (Brian Rice)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Take a sniff of Gnews
Message-ID: <717@oberlin.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 18:25:47 GMT
References: <1501@looking.UUCP> <34@ncar.ucar.edu> <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Computer Science Program, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
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Summary: Who shaves the barber?

In article <7928@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, 
weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Emacs Weenie) writes:

> And AI means Lisp, which Gnews is coded in.  
> 
> [etc.]
>
> And now for some fairy stories.
> 
> [several thousand bytes worth of fairy stories]

Suppose that Gnews had the requisite rules to implement for all these fairy 
stories.  THEN suppose weemba tried to post THAT MESSAGE.

He'd be y-or-n'ing for days!

(If weemba can write me a function HALTS(f), I retract this comment.)

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