🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <24830@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
>But, IMHO, the real strength of this newsgroup is that it has hooks into
>almost all the major labs and universities in the US, and many around
>the world.  This usually means, for example, that almost any subject will
>be treated in an expert manner by someone who *really* knows the subject
>who comes out of the woodworks to set the record straight.  

Well, I'll never deny fully that such a situation exists, since it
is from this benefit that our funding exudes.  (If it was just a
netload of dirty GIFs and 2d-amendment rhetoric the NSF woulda shut
this puppy down after the first ten phonons hit Duke...)

However, it's not so clean as you might imagine.  We now lack one
of our most valued members, in the late person of Larry Lippman,
who, as Marvin Minsky pointed out, would have forgotten more about
chemistry than we know of our own gastronomic preferences, were
Larry prone to forgetting anything, which he weren't.  This is
merely an irrevocable example of the gaps in our roster.  More
often, the real deal is just too busy to notice the latest periodic
peak in the flux of argument.  And I've never seen anything
discovered by the net, just a lot of "Professor, it hurts when I
know this," "So, don't know that," sort of thing.

I don't even know if the NSA's labs have a net.connection
(Hi, General Scowcroft!).

Still, Robert Park isn't the only guy with a teletype (well,
maybe the only guy who still posts from it...).

So I'll go along with it.

I'll post an annual "News from the AMD Xerox Room" posting
with all the really *good* schematics Intel's published
in the 12 months preceding the preceding 12 months.

				--Blair
				  "Well, those I can piece together
				   from the annual shredding/newfs'ing
				   parties..."

Disclaimer:  I don't even remember where I parked my car,
most days; you think _I_ talk for Intel?