[news.misc] Snuffers

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.
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|What the hell does ":-)" mean, anyway?
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|I keep seeing it pop up everywhere, and I have no clue...

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720