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  1. Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
  5. In-Reply-To: mnemonic@eff.org's message of Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:42:50 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec24163436@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <1992Dec23.225439.22265@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.091536.26230@netcom.com>
  11.     <1992Dec24.181422.19391@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.194250.11322@eff.org>
  12. Date: 24 Dec 92 16:34:36
  13. Lines: 27
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  15. In article <1992Dec24.194250.11322@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
  16.  
  17.    In article <1992Dec24.181422.19391@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
  18.  
  19.    >You shouldn't offend people unintentionally.
  20.  
  21.    I think that offending people unintentionally is part of the human
  22.    condition.
  23.  
  24.    >It suggests an incomplete
  25.    >mastery of the medium.
  26.  
  27.    If this is true, then I have yet to encounter anyone with a *complete*
  28.    mastery.
  29.  
  30.  
  31.    --Mike
  32.  
  33. Maybe one should take offense only when offense was intended.
  34.  
  35. Conversely, to fail to take offense when offense was intended is indeed
  36. offensive.
  37. --
  38. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  39. *
  40. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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