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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.logic
- Subject: Re: The Continuum Hypothesis: Must it be {True or False}
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.204250.18833@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 01:42:49 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.034938.11339@smsc.sony.com> <1992Dec24.161747.18827@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Dec25.011158.2712@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec25.011158.2712@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely) writes:
-
- >The practice of quoting in full is one of M Zelany's most irritating
- >characteristics - about 75% of the post referred to here was quote.
- >Of course, he is not by any means alone in this - PLEASE SUMMARIZE or at the
- >very least leave the quote to the END of your reply. (And mark it as such,
- >so we are not even tempted to scan it if we recall the points.)
- >I find too often I have to hit the "K" key because some folk prefer the "F"
- >to the "f" key (I am using trn - translate to your own news reader's
- >conventions - the sense I hope is clear: responding with quote rather than
- >without.) Bah humbug....
-
- By contrast, the one thing I find most irritating, -- after the
- preponderance of functional illiterates, incapable of spelling six
- letters of my last name, -- is the metadiscussions, whose instigators
- excoriate the putative shortage of one's substantive contribution to a
- given thread, whilst conveniently ignoring the abject nonexistence of
- their own.
-
- >On the other hand, maybe that is an indication they are doing me a favour
- >;-}
-
- I am so happy you decided to reciprocate.
-
- >Happy hol's to all,
-
- Likewise.
-
- >- rags
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-