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From: haverty@BBN.COM (Jack Haverty)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Networks considered harmful
Message-ID: <8912231524.AA03789@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:58:28 GMT
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When I said in the message I few hours ago: "PostScript-related error
messages seem to me to be competitive with error reports I see from
various electronic mail systems in terms of incomprehensibility and
uselessness", I didn't anticipate that I'd see the following
incomprehensible reply by some mail system (at least I assume that's who
"Revised List Processor" is) attempting to establish its supremacy: 

----- received in response to my previous message to tcp-ip ----


Date:         Wed, 20 Dec 89 14:46:22 EST  
From:         Revised List Processor (1.6c)
<LISTSERV%POLYGRAF@graf.poly.edu>     
Subject:      Ack: Re: Networks considered harmful     
To:           Jack Haverty <haverty@BBN.COM>

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