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From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.080219.11518@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 08:02:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: mrapple@quack.UUCP (Nick Sayer)

In article <5115@quack.UUCP>, mrapple@quack (Nick Sayer) writes:

>>  One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a
>>smaller distribution.

>That seems a bit draconian, especially since I'm an undergrad myself.

  What is really wanted is a way to weed out the idiots. Since I
don't know how that could be done, I picked on the
undergraduates. One site like Penn State won't do much harm, but
what if all the big universities follow suit?  The net will turn
into an intellectual sty.

  Of course another possibility would be to get rid of all
pedantic dimwits posting from Yale who start flamewars on
sci.math, but that doesn't cover enough bases.
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   ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
Imagine what the world would be like if football was a worthy ritual performed
in stadiums but mathematics was a misunderstood activity ignored by almost all.