Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!smaug From: smaug@eng.umd.edu (Kurt Lidl) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users? Message-ID: <1990Feb13.032400.4120@eng.umd.edu> Date: 13 Feb 90 03:24:00 GMT References: <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET> <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Dragon Finishing School of Unix and Magic Lines: 24 In article <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a >smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let's hear it for bad generalizations in poor taste again. Didn't we just go through this 6 months ago? Just because someone doesn't have a degree doesn't make them inane conversationists or make their postings less valuable. I would rather read ten uninteresting postings from these maligned poeple than one ignorant posting from a person who is bigoted against the youth of America. >ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 >"I am quite prepared to prove in court that I am neither stupid nor insane." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I doubt it, I really doubt it. Why *else* would you make such an absurd statement? -- /* Kurt J. Lidl (smaug@eng.umd.edu) | Unix is the answer, but only if you */ /* UUCP: uunet!eng.umd.edu!smaug | phrase the question very carefully. */