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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v16i090:  Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49
Summary: opinions abound, facts are in short supply
Message-ID: <360@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 21:43:47 GMT
References: <346@ispi.UUCP> <2812@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <332@avsd.UUCP> <576@mcl.UUCP>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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In article <576@mcl.UUCP> stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions) writes:

>In article <332@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:

>> Boo-boo-pucky. It's choked my modem up for a week so far.
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>> Tough. Use the U S mails. Or bring a modem in from home and use your phone.

>Tough. Maybe you should get a better modem. The only line problem that
>my TB+ has much trouble with is a busy signal.

I *have* a TB+, dinkleberry. And I have a few questions as to how often it is
your responsibility to maintain the UUCP lines, as opposed to being yet another
opinionated net-news reader without substantial experience.

>I have always said, "You can never have too much information". I might
>never use this data, but I am glad to have it.

Goddess save us from the packrat mentality. I'll bet you save all of your mail
for eons into the past, for obscure political leverage, too. Freud had a name
for people like you ...

I don't even have to wonder, I *know* that some day you will encounter an
experience that will make you, implicitly or explicitly, change your mind.

Assuming you have one.

I have nothing against information. I *do* think there's a better way to
distribute it, like anonymous FTP or UUCP.

Common courtesy dictates that one not burden the net with stuff that's not
going to be used. My father is an astronomer, I know the value of such data,
I know how many astronomers there are out there, and I say it was a waste of
everybody's time to distribute it that way.

>-stacy

-- richard
 
>"He to whom the early bird runs best learns wisdom and patience!
>                          ... I can never remember proverbs" - Charlie Brown
>S. L. Millions                                            ..!tmsoft!mcl!stacy


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