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- From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Butthead
- Message-ID: <24DEC199220110034@spades.aces.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 03:11:00 GMT
- References: <01GSOVRX9D8Y00014R@mc.maricopa.edu>
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- In article <01GSOVRX9D8Y00014R@mc.maricopa.edu>, SHOECRAFT@MC.MARICOPA.EDU
- offers his unsolicited philosophy:
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- # And finally, to those of you who time and again answer those questions,
- #no matter how stupid, I thank you. You are the real reason why people join
- #this list in the first place, and why they stay subscribed.
-
-
- BZZZT. Wrong! Guess again. People joined this list for information.
- Not for social niceness. Not for good jokes. Not for A.F.Day or Kevin
- Mitnick seeking sources. No, not even for you. They ``joined'' (read)
- this list for information.
-
- They want to see answers they can learn from, or questions that duplicate
- problems they have.
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- They don't want to see questions that are so ambiguous they cause more
- confusion than they solve.
-
- They don't want to see philosophical discussions, like yours or mine.
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- So take it to COMP.WEENIES.NICENESS.
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- Ehud
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- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
- gavron@aces.com
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