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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Snuffers
Message-ID: <8052@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 26 Mar 88 12:47:14 GMT
References: <47058@sun.uucp>
Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central
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Summary: the exception proves the rule
In-reply-to: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)


In article <47058@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>After eight years of projects and experiments, you'd think we would have
>figured out that educating the users simply doesn't work. It never has,
>and we have any number of case studies to prove it on USENET.

On the one hand, I have not seen a single "didn't some state pass a law
setting pi equal to 3?" discussion since a summary of the topic was in-
troduced into the list of "frequently asked questions" in n.a.newusers.

On the other hand, article <8035@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> showed up in four
newsgroups, under the informative subject "Re: Icon ownership (was Re:
Apple Challenges...)":

|Time to be stupid.
|
|What the hell does ":-)" mean, anyway?
|
|I keep seeing it pop up everywhere, and I have no clue...

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720