Re: What is this goup for?

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From: Kenneth H. Greenlee
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 15:46

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In article <dudette-220594131917@deety.acns.nwu.edu> dudette@merle.acns.nwu.edu () writes:
>In article <2ol7rs$1ei@Mercury.mcs.com>, jorn@MCS.COM (Jorn Barger) wrote:
>
>> In article <bell-140494073645@bell.ils.nwu.edu>,
>> bell@ils.nwu.edu (Ben Bell) writes:
>> >I just assumed from "chi.ai" that it's a children's forum for discussing
>> >artificial insemination. I could be mistaken.
>> 
>> Oh.  Well, in that case, you misspelled "goop"...
>
>what a disappointment...i thought this was a group for the art institute.

No, no, no.  A long time ago, Roger Schank wanted a local newsgroup
created to discuss food, and he (quite cleverly) suggested chi.a1, as in
"Where's the A1?  When this request was passed on to Jim McCoy, the
ILS news administrator at the time, he saw this note scribbled in all
caps, "CREATE NEWSGROUP CHI.A1", and (quite mistakenly) created chi.ai.

God, I'd wish people would be more careful.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth H. Greenlee * idgreenlee@id.iit.edu
Manager, Design Processes Laboratory * Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology * Chicago * Illinois * USA

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From: kenlee@iitmax.iit.edu (Kenneth H. Greenlee)
Subject: Re: What is this goup for?
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