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From: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.
Message-ID: <13678@mcdchg.chi.il.us>
Date: 24 Oct 88 22:23:04 GMT
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Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
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Tom Blenko (blenko-tom@CS.YALE.EDU) writes:
> I don't think it's at all out of line to think about and discuss what the
> consequences of the third might be. It is, after all, current news.
AHA!  I aliased comp.sys.next to the wrong newsgroup on my system.  I
aliased it to comp.sys.misc.  Now I find out that "it is, after all,
current news."  I should have aliased it to misc.headlines!!!

> Regarding the merits of the machine, two points:
> 
> 	this capability is simply not available to a lot of people, and
> 	not to anyone for $6K/system.
Ah, yes.  Precisely!  It's "simply not available".  They aren't shipping,
and even when they do, it'll only be for educational institutions.  We
don't need a newsgroup to discuss vaporware.
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.chi.il.us	Moderator: comp.newprod
"There is a fine line between stupidity and cleverness." (This is Spinal Tap)