weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (03/26/88)
In article <47058@sun.uucp>, chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >After eight years of projects and experiments, you'd think we would have >figured out that educating the users simply doesn't work. It never has, >and we have any number of case studies to prove it on USENET. On the one hand, I have not seen a single "didn't some state pass a law setting pi equal to 3?" discussion since a summary of the topic was in- troduced into the list of "frequently asked questions" in n.a.newusers. On the other hand, article <8035@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> showed up in four newsgroups, under the informative subject "Re: Icon ownership (was Re: Apple Challenges...)": |Time to be stupid. | |What the hell does ":-)" mean, anyway? | |I keep seeing it pop up everywhere, and I have no clue... ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720