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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Recent Peeve
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:11:12 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
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- In article <92321.001837LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> <LXP111@psuvm.psu.edu> (Long Phamdo rocking PSU style) writes:
- >No..what's your point.
- >
- >What is a "wankhole"
-
- I'm sorry, Long; apparently we have had a little miscommunication
- here.
-
- From your breezy wit and cool command of prose I took you to be
- at least a junior or senior at PSU, which is after all one of
- the nation's finest public universities, and then I just casually
- assumed that you were in computer science, so of course you would
- know all about wanking.
-
- Again, sorry; let me explain. "Wanking" is a technical term
- borrowed from systems theory; a computer program is said to be
- "wanking" when it produces a large quantity of output of little or
- no use. Some conjugate the term, which is actually of Germanic
- derivation, and refer to such a program as a "wanker."
-
- So what I meant by talking about "wankholes" (a wankhole is a
- sort of interprocess communication point for wankers, like
- a socket or a pseudo-tty) was to suggest, in as delicate a manner
- as I could manage, that you were a wanker.
-
- Now please don't take this wrong. It isn't really an insult;
- it's just a sort of a polite reminder to rethink your thoughts
- and maybe consider a few more times what you are doing.
-
- More specifically, this is a worldwide group with tens of thousands
- of readers, and they read it because they find the articles
- posted here to be interesting or amusing. Now my suggestion is
- to, every time before you post, think about whether these
- people will find your article interesting. Because, if not,
- a lot of people will spend a lot of money sending it all over the
- world, and they may be unhappy when they find out it's something
- that they're not really interested in reading.
-
- It would, in short, be rather discourteous of you. Not really
- evil; just not very nice. That's more or less what it means
- to be a wanker in the world of Usenet.
-
- If you have any questions, please drop me an email note before
- you wank again. I'll be more than happy to answer any questions
- you may have.
-
- Sorry if I was a bit rude before; I get a bit tense sometimes.
- You know how it is.
-
- Yours sincerely,
- Curtis.
-