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
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (07/19/89)
In article <652@noe.UUCP>, marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: I> Erik Fair recently posted the article below to comp.lang.forth. I would t> 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 w> about netiquette in high esteem. Does this message indicate that my o> judgement of him was incorrect? r> Article 427 of comp.lang.forth: k> Path: noe!pacbell!ames!apple!fair e> From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) d> Reply-To: nobody@noao.edu .> Followup-To: talk.abortion I think he was attempting to get people's goats in bulk. I think he has succeeded. Crossposting to comp.lang.forth does seem to have been in bad taste, but after all, what do you expect from someone who likes vi? -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu People...How you gonna FIGURE 'em? Don't bother, S.L.--Just stand back and enjoy the EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS...
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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