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...) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|purdue|sequent|inuxc|uiucdcs}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 {allegra|cbosgd|hao|harpo|seismo|intelca|masscomp}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hit me with your laser beam!"