marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) (07/18/89)
Erik Fair recently posted the article below to comp.lang.forth. I would be very interested to know just what motivated him to modify the Reply-To: and Followup-To: fields as he did. I once held Erik's opinions about netiquette in high esteem. Does this message indicate that my judgement of him was incorrect? Article 427 of comp.lang.forth: Path: noe!pacbell!ames!apple!fair From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Real programmers Message-ID: <33180@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 15 Jul 89 19:29:25 GMT References: <10202@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: nobody@noao.edu Followup-To: talk.abortion Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division Lines: 11 Xref: noe comp.lang.forth:427 In the referenced article, aj-mberg@dasys1.UUCP (Micha Berger) writes: >Real programmers use FORTH, and know that cc's main significance is its use in >TV guide to tell deaf people their bosex will put text on the bottom of the >screen. Forth is Lisp, badly reimplemented on inadequate hardware by an astronomer who didn't know what he was doing. nyah! Erik -- Marc de Groot (KG6KF) These ARE my employer's opinions! Noe Systems, San Francisco UUCP: uunet!hoptoad!noe!marc Internet: marc@kg6kf.AMPR.ORG
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (07/18/89)
In article <652@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: >Erik Fair recently posted the article below to comp.lang.forth. I would >be very interested to know just what motivated him to modify the >Reply-To: and Followup-To: fields as he did. I once held Erik's opinions >about netiquette in high esteem. Does this message indicate that my >judgement of him was incorrect? No, the message is probably a forgery, posted by someone who wants to make Erik look bad. We've had a rash of these lately, like the newgroup message for alt.maroney, allegedly (but obviously not) from Tim Maroney. . . -- -- Joe Buck jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (07/18/89)
In article <652@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: >Erik Fair recently posted the article below to comp.lang.forth. I would >be very interested to know just what motivated him to modify the >Reply-To: and Followup-To: fields as he did. I once held Erik's opinions >about netiquette in high esteem. Does this message indicate that my >judgement of him was incorrect? > [terribly amusing article deleted] No. It indicates that your sense of humor fell off. And just what did you expect news.admin to do about it ? -- He's T*d, Jim. richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (07/19/89)
That article reeks of net.sarcasm ... it's cross-posted to
the religion.computers group which is ok for what he said.
(Kinda like cross posting flames to alt.flame). The sarcasm
comes in with the followups-to abortion and saying "nyah" at
the end.
I'd say there's a non-zero chance it's a forgery made, say, if/when
he left a terminal logged in at a publlic place.
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<- WARNING: Hunting season is now open in West Virginia!jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) (07/20/89)
In article <3409@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >In article <652@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: >>Erik Fair recently posted the article below to comp.lang.forth. ... stuff ... > >No, the message is probably a forgery, posted by someone who wants to >make Erik look bad. We've had a rash of these lately, like the newgroup >message for alt.maroney, allegedly (but obviously not) from Tim Maroney. >. It *is* Erik, he posts that one on the Well about every six months like clockwork. He was just being funny. We get him in the corner at Well office parties after these episodes and thrash him about the head and shoulders, and he goes back to normal. :-) Besides, if he *wants* to be a nobody, *let* him! :-) {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} {} {} {} jax@well ." Sysop, Realtime Control and Forth Board" FIG {} {} jax@chariot ." (303) 278-0364 3/12/2400 8-n-1 24 hrs." Chapter {} {} JAX on GEnie ." Tell them JAX sent you!" Coordinator {} {} {} {} "When we hear that the four walls have fallen in, do we ask if the {} {} roof has fallen also?" - Chinua Achebe {} {} {} {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}