Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!gatech!udel!mmdf From: BECKER%HUMBER.BITNET@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Status of V1.3 Message-ID: <2699@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 24 May 88 23:19:23 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 44 >In article <1988May16.062408.16955@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry >Spencer) > writes: >> -- >> NASA is to spaceflight as | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology >> the Post Office is to mail. | >{ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry > >All U.S. readers of COMP.OS.MINIX who think Henry's ungracious swipe in >COMP.OS.MINIX has gone on too long (being as it is from a Canadian, who should >talk considering Canada's marvelous space program, and that this is carried on >U.S.-funded computers across the nation, and that this isn't a space >newsgroup): > >Please do us all a big favor and send him email (see address above) urging him >to cut it out. Argue as strongly and persuasively as you can, since he is >very opinionated and stubborn. > >For those who say that NASA sucks dead turkey gizzard: I wouldn't argue >very much with you about that so don't bother flaming me. The merit (or >demerit) of NASA isn't the issue. Henry's unmitigated, undecorous, >inappropriate, gratuitous, just plain rude gall is. > >FELLOW AMERICANS, DON'T SIT STILL FOR THIS!!!! > >(Don't bother flaming me BTW. This is my first and last posting here on the >topic.) >-- >|------------Dan Levy------------| Path: ihnp4,!ttrdc!levy >| AT&T | Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a >| Data Systems Group | person who avoids the small errors while >|--------Skokie, Illinois--------| sweeping on to the grand fallacy. Dear Dan: please blow it out your nose, or wherever. Henry's nationality is not at issue here: attempting to make it an issue is reprehensible. On the other hand, there's no reason why you shouldn't disagree with his opinion... Cheers, BBecker Humber College Etobicoke, Ont. BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER UUCP: ...!ncrcan!ziebmef!becker!bdb