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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: inventing a label
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 06:29:46 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:
-
- >Ruth, no real need to pay attention to this - serious stuff.
- >
- Tush, to misquote your own words, f**k off. You commence to be annoying.
-
- >that makes people form emergency listservs" they CAN (on rare
- >occasions) mean something different from "what is a good name
- >for whatever it is that makes people form emergency listservs".
- >
- On the other hand, may times, a label brings with it a host of concepts,
- which *do* form an exact description of what you're after. That's what labels
- are supposed to do. Net addiction and all it implies is a direct cause
- of emergency listservs. Simple - the underlying condition, labeled net
- addiction, results in a set of behaviors when the "fix" is missed. When the
- listserv@uga goes temporarily tits-up, true addicts must get their fix
- from an emergency backup. This can be and in this case *is*, and emergency
- listserv. [so there] <pthhhhbbbbbbbp!>
- >
- >This is the reason why I don't much pursue such threads nowadays.
- >I fully agree that "It's an answer" is not a false statement. But
- >if you stop assuming that the world is full of freshmen then a lot
- >of flip answers will stop too.
- >
- It's only flip if you don't understand the concept. Real net addicts only
- need to be given the name, and they immediately recognize what's happening.
- You probably are one too, you just like being a pompous, obtuse, a**.
-
- <raspberry, Mark II>
- No go take two valium and dial in when you wake up.
-
- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
- - ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
- Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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