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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Info-futures
Message-ID: <413@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 00:42:23 GMT
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Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
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bzs@pinocchio.encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>>I have been wondering why there is so much discussion about
>>the electoral college, texas and its independence, and capitalism
>>on a mailing list that is (I thought) supposed to involved with
>>things like why one memory model looks better than another one for
>>a given type of architecture, why CD-ROM isn't a good choice for
>>certain types of filesystems but excellent for archives, and so on.

>Exactly, you've got one loser like jeff daiell and then of course two
>or three other people get sucked in and before you know it there's a
>several messages per day on some irrelevant topic.

Whoa !!!!

Last time *I* checked, this was a UUCP newsgroup called comp.society.futures.

I don't see how the inclusion of 'society' and / or 'future(s)' ( which
suggests a plethora of possibilities, not a single destination ) connotates
the strict exclusion of anything except ...

>>things like why one memory model looks better than another one for
>>a given type of architecture, why CD-ROM isn't a good choice for
>>certain types of filesystems but excellent for archives, and so on.

Perhaps I missed something ? Or is the 'moderator' losing his moderation ?

>Other than moderating I think the best suggestion is that others send
>him (and others) direct e-mail notes indicating their displeasure with
>the abuse of the list whenever one shows up. Perhaps the sheer volume
>will discourage him or convince him that it's not just one grumpy
>mailing list owner who is sick of this stupidity.

I found his comments topically relevant, interesting, and entertaining.

>	-Barry Shein, ||Encore||

-- richard


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