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Article #1678Re: Cool .dir.tiff/.opendir.tiff (small RTF)
From: Jess Anderson
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:52
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:52
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In article <1992Apr14.095315.13156@gagetalker.com>
scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) writes:
>Frankly I see this RTF group as a mistake. When SEF doesn't have any
>actual RTF postings to bounce he'll move on to bouncing the re-director
>postings telling people about postings in the RTF groups.
Not a safe bet, but such predictions aren't useful.
>csn needed spliting up for reasons other
>than to give RTF postings a SEF-free zone.
[...]>
>Will
>SEF decide the best way to continue his campaign will be [...]
>this whole
>thing is bull shit.
Isn't it, though?
Sean Fagan seems to have captured your entire attention,
Scott, since three of your four paragraphs are reactions to
this one single phenomenon. I don't think it's so much a
matter of bullshit as it is of giving greater priority to
useful work -- even useful disagreement.
The business of water is to flow; it goes around the rocks
in the streambed. It does so easily, automatically, without
effort worth noting. We should probably be doing likewise.
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!anderson From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Cool .dir.tiff/.opendir.tiff (small RTF) Message-ID: <1992Apr16.115201.20972@macc.wisc.edu> Date: 16 Apr 92 11:52:01 GMT References: <1992Apr11.031855.4843@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Apr14.095315.13156@gagetalker.com> Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 35