Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Articles most often cited in comp.all Message-ID: Date: 30 Dec 89 19:39:48 GMT References: <9224@elsie.UUCP> <6977@tank.uchicago.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 27 In <6977@tank.uchicago.edu> jill@tank.uchicago.edu (jill holly hansen) writes: > It is interesting, isn't it, that the compiler of this waste of > net resources doesn't list his name. Apparently, however, we are > paying his salary. Also interesting is where he directs the > followup. Not really all that interesting; he used to put his name on it (I don't remember his name right now; doesn't really concern me) but in the face of accusations that he might be doing it for some sort of self-stroking ego thing ("WoW! Look ma! I post important stats regularly to the net!") he changed it to be from the more generic news@elsie. I wasn't the one who hypothesized the ego theory; it seems to me that he sincerely is doing it for what he believes to be the benefit of the net, not merely his own gratification. I agree though that direction follow-ups to himself is rather curious. If this is a benefit, and someone wanted to comment on something interesting in the stats, why should he be the only recipient of that commentary? This is of course ignoring, for the moment, the current debate, which is quite likely the reason that the Followup-To: poster now appears. I don't recall whether it has been there all along. By the way, how are we paying his salary? Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))