ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) (10/24/84)
<<But wait, if you order now, you'll get this free ginsu knife...>>
..>David Wade sez this:
..>And Gene don't you really think that people would object to your
..>cute little jokes, has anyone called your boss yet? I'll bet
..>his phone number is in one of the site reports in net.news somewhere.
..>Lets start a round robin and see how many people we can get fired.
..>Just think where we'd be if we could get rid of reactionarys like
..>Gene.
Yeah, just think about where *would* we be... One less interesting
person to read on the net. If we got rid of *all* the Chuquis and Genes
and Henrys on the net, this stuff would be boring as hell. Probably would
be uninformative as well.
There is a *world* of difference between a cute quip at the bottom
of a posting and several Kbytes of "meaningless drivel." Not only is
the "meaningless drivel" slightly annoying (I start reading the crap and
then realize that I shouldn't be wasting my time . . .) but it is
*costly* meaningless drivel. Costly to |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|, costly to
pucc, costly to gatech, and costly to mcvax... We're talking big-time
dollars over a period of time for someone to say absolutely nothing
intelligible.
If you can't take a cute quip, then perhaps you should push
off the net and do something a bit more low-key... (You could read
/dev/null -- nothing controversial there...)
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