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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Bandwidth burner
- In-Reply-To: "Michael Smith"'s message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:19:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec29113452@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- References: <2934731029.0.p00004@psilink.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 11:34:52
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- In article <2934731029.0.p00004@psilink.com> "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com> writes:
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- >DATE: 29 Dec 92 11:56:42 GMT
- >FROM: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
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- >Me Im just a one time professional student, now out of work Active Duty Army
- >Guardmember (I quit, needed a change). Who has a desire to know alot
- >in different subjects, renaisance(sp) man?
-
- May I take the liberty of encouraging a policy of non-response to this
- poor soul? I ask this as a favor, since I don't have the equivalent of a
- kill file and no way of prefiltering posts; I have to get all in order
- to get any, at a clunky 9.6 kb/sec.
-
- Believe me, I hate that snippy net-police mentality as much as anybody;
- this is a cry for mercy.
-
- --Michael Smith
-
- I doubt that Michael Smith hates the snippy net-police mentality as
- much as I do.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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