Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!dasys1!jpr
From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences
Summary: Flame killer ou[s]t[s] Henry?
Message-ID: <6823@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 20:45:09 GMT
References: <167@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1988Sep22.173745.14647@utzoo.uucp> <8570@smoke.ARPA> <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> <6638@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <8613@smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: TANGENT
Lines: 27

In article <8613@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <6638@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kramer@bionette.UUCP (Jack Kramer - CMBL) writes:
>>Is there any way to filter out messages from
>>particular persons such as Henry Spencer.
>
>That depends on your specific mailer and/or newsreader; RTFM.
>
>Why would you want to filter out Henry?  He's one of the few
>proponents of reasonable UNIX environments, albeit a bit dour.

This whole discussion sub-thread may be a case study to submit to
Willam Safire for his "On Language" column in the Sunday New York
Times Magazine.

English isn't quite as precise as {C,French,...,you_name_it}.

The ellipsis "... filter out Henry..." could mean either:
	I want to filter out from the big pile everything of Henry's and
		put Henry's stuff into my reading folder.
or
	I want to filter anything of Henry's out of the big pile and put
		what's left into my reading folder.
-- 

Time is nature's way of				Jean-Pierre Radley
making sure that everything			..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jpr
doesn't happen all at once.			CIS: 76120,1341