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From: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Can something be done about 770K waste of time postings...
Message-ID: <848@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 15:34:45 GMT
References: <1574@looking.UUCP> <22099@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: jsb@actnyc.UUCP (The Invisible Man)
Organization: Diet Software
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Keywords: usefulness

In article <22099@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
)In article <1574@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
)|	[flame for posting SPICE demo deleted]
)	[ much defense of SPICE posting deleted]
)								Even a
)small version of SPICE can be very useful, especially if you're an
)engineering student and don't particularly need the $3000 version.

)This is a time-old argument with pros and cons.  Why not flame at
)things like talk.bizarre which generate tons of useless material every
)day?  At least the program *does* something.  For those that
)understand what it does, it is valuable.
)
For those that understand what talk.bizarre postings do, they are valuable too.
"Useful" is a value term used here as if it were an objective property like
'red' or "divisible by 17".  Philosophers of pragmatism aside, values cannot
be derived from facts.  We already have no consensus on whether SPICE should
be posted.  Is there an algorithm to answer *that* question?  
At any rate, SPICE programs can be purchased by those who think they are 
valuable.  Postings in talk.bizarre are priceless.
-- 
		"When you awake, you will remember everything"
				jim (uunet!actnyc!jsb)