honey@down.FUN (code 101) (02/12/85)
i am ignoring the attacks on me by total strangers who insist on
defending perlman's mediocrity; these people are misinformed and
easily manipulated. but von rospach's latest bleatings, in which he
expresses anxiety that he would ever sound like me, border on slander
and beg for a response.
von rospach, your worries are ill-founded. it is your fate to sound
like a whining adolescent ("no one appreciates all my hard work in
saving the net"), a pathetic social leper ("*sigh*, the net is my
BEST friend, *grin*") or simply a half-witted lunk ("i refuse to take
myself seriously", and most flagrantly "chuqui").
i won't comment on your technical competence; i don't read
net.singles, so i'm not in a position to evaluate it.
now be honest. you don't really care about perlman do you? after
all you don't want to defend a 1000 line c program that runs slower
and does less than the five line shell script in kernighan and pike,
or a mammoth menu based shell that doesn't compile, or a comparison
of read and fread based on a 10 line c program (you know, the one
that ran in 0.1 sec), do you?
if you're being perfectly candid, you'll admit that you're still
miffed by the mail i sent you last week. since you have escalated
this private matter into a public slugfest, why not enlighten "the
net" by posting that note? and maybe perlman would like to do the
same.
peteregs@epsilon.UUCP (Ed Sheppard) (02/13/85)
> ... > i won't comment on your technical competence; i don't read > net.singles, so i'm not in a position to evaluate it. > ... > peter Actually, it's rather easy to discover the relative "networthiness" of Honeyman, Pearlman, etc. Just take a look at the latest net stats from seismo. Both Honeyman and Pearlman are listed as prodigious news submitters. A comparison of the distribution of newsgroups these two send news to is quite revealing. Ed Sheppard Bellcore
bae@fisher.UUCP (Shiva the Destroyer) (02/15/85)
>Actually, it's rather easy to discover the relative "networthiness" >of Honeyman, Pearlman, etc. Just take a look at the latest net stats >from seismo. Both Honeyman and Pearlman are listed as prodigious >news submitters. A comparison of the distribution of newsgroups >these two send news to is quite revealing. > > Ed Sheppard Well, well, let's see what we have here: No. of % of Rank Articles KBytes Total User 4 13 220.2 2.3% perlman@wanginst.UUCP (Gary Perlman) 64% net.sources 21% net.unix 7% net.cog-eng 7% net.math.stat 6 46 120.6 1.3% chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui & MacDuff) 22% net.singles 10% net.micro.mac 6% net.news 6% net.usenix 12 11 58.8 0.6% honey@down.FUN (code 101) 36% net.mail 27% net.rumor 18% net.news 9% net.dcom 9% net.sources Now, if you consider that perlman's net.sources submissions have been composed of retransmissions of menux which he botched the first n^2 times....... -- Brian A. Ehrmantraut Ad Maioram Gloriam Hasturi! UUCP: {allegra, astrovax, princeton, twg} !fisher!bae BELL: (609) 452-8991 / (609) 734-7761 USnail: 184 Little Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) (02/23/85)
In article <33@epsilon.UUCP> egs@epsilon.UUCP (Ed Sheppard) writes: >Actually, it's rather easy to discover the relative "networthiness" >of Honeyman, Pearlman, etc. Just take a look at the latest net stats >from seismo. > Ed Sheppard Please! Don't keep me in suspense any longer. Which one posts how much to which newsgroups? -- Blessed Be, Jeff Hull {decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,scdrdcf,ucbvax} 13817 Yukon Ave. trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull Hawthorne, CA 90250