jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) (03/08/91)
In article <koFgy2w164w@dogface> writes: >jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: > >(In response to this from eric@snark.thyrsus.com) > >>>I will probably post 2.8.1 in about ten days. > >> Could you please limit it to newsgroups that I don't carry? I am getting >> a bit tired of Jargon File du jour. Is there anyone else that feels the >> same way? Can I get an "Amen" brother? > >Here it is. My apologies for posting in the alt.sources group. Another net.citizen pointed this out to me in e-mail, along with a virtual "Amen". So I have cancelled the alt.sources version. Now - Brothers and Sisters - I feel a rant coming on ... Praise the Lord - I say - Praise the Lord that we have the almighty USENET to spew forth our dribble and noise into the vast cyberwasteland. Yet there are those among us that would waste even this electronic WASTEland of cyberspace with hourly postings of cleverly acculated mindless buzzwords and phrases whose very meanings flutter in the wind, surpassing even the greatest of the bandwidth wasters - the very K*nt Paul Dolan himself - in their ability to post and repost that which surely was posted several times too many within one or two postings of having been posted in the first place. And now I ask of YOU - what will YOU do to stop this mindLESS consumption of your precious number system lest the next version of that very document consume the last of the Really Big Numbers just before the government runs out of money again and is unable to borrow still more money because those very same Really Big Numbers are too busy being used to tell the tale of one to many Jargon File postings? -- John F. Haugh II | Distribution to | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 | GEnie PROHIBITED :-) | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "I've never written a device driver, but I have written a device driver manual" -- Robert Hartman, IDE Corp.
otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (03/08/91)
In article <19090@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
[re Jargon file 2.8.1 coming out in about 10 days]
Could you please limit it to newsgroups that I don't carry? I am getting
a bit tired of Jargon File du jour. Is there anyone else that feels the
same way? Can I get an "Amen" brother?
No you can't. Why should it be limited for just your convenience ? Use a kill
file if you don't want to see it, but don't (try to) limit other's access...
Having got that off my back, I feel that alt.sources *could* be dropped, since
this actually isn't source. What about just an informational message telling
alt.sources.d readers that the new version has been posted to a.f.c and m.m ?
--
/* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
/* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (USR HST/V.32, 24h/d) */
/* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */
/* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) (03/09/91)
In <19093@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: >Now - Brothers and Sisters - I feel a rant coming on ... > Praise the Lord - I say - Praise the Lord that we have the > almighty USENET to spew forth our dribble and noise into the > vast cyberwasteland. Yet there are those among us that > would waste even this electronic WASTEland of cyberspace By Dave Barry: Broadcast Preacher: And so we see that it was BEZEL who told SHAM to go to Begorrah. It was not SHAM who told BEZEL: It was BEZEL who told SHAM. Now, people ask me, they say, ``Brother Ray Bob Tom, what do you mean, it was Bezel wjho told Sham?'' And I say, ``What I mean is that when we're talking about who told who to go to Begorrah, we must understand that it was BEZEL who told...'' Remeber that the Jargon File is going to become a book in the near future, and so he is trying to give us all a chance to make suggestions and corrections. I suspect it will die down after the freeze deadline for the book. -- Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture---sounds like the aftermath of a tornado
jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) (03/10/91)
In article <3427@unisoft.UUCP> greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes: ><19090@rpp386.cactus.org> by jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) >& In article <1ZgmWc#02nhn98XshJO3XTCw17MjXDN=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >& >I will probably post 2.8.1 in about ten days. > >A whole file or just diffs? What do you think? Has Eric been civil enough to limit his outbursts to just diffs? >& Could you please limit it to newsgroups that I don't carry? I am getting >& a bit tired of Jargon File du jour. Is there anyone else that feels the >& same way? Can I get an "Amen" brother? > >Is hitting your "k" key so hard? Would you please limit your postings to >newsgroups that I don't carry? Hitting the "k" key will not correct the problem at hand - namely that the damned thing is frequently cross-posted from the groups it obviously belongs in (things like "misc.misc" and "alt.folklore.computers") into groups it obviously does not belong in, like comp.unix.wizards (remember that one?) and alt.sources. It is not source code, nor is it a part of a discussion about UNIX or UNIX internals or [...]. I don't carry [ as opposed to "I don't read" ] groups such as alt.folklore.computers because I have exactly 0 interest in things which typically fall into that catagory, and even less interest in wasting CPU and telco line bandwidth needed to truck about the reminiscing of a bunch of old geets [ or young geets as the case may be ]. ># On the 'Net: Why are more and more fourth-level wizard(-wannabe)s trying ># to invoke ninth-level magic instead of taking the time to climb the other ># (quite essential) thirteen or fourteen levels so they can do this properly? Do you really believe this bullshit? -- John F. Haugh II | Distribution to | UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 | GEnie PROHIBITED :-) | Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org "I've never written a device driver, but I have written a device driver manual" -- Robert Hartman, IDE Corp.
ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (03/11/91)
How lucky you guys are! Parts 5, 6, and 12 did *not* make it here! -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== THINK: Due to IMF & World Bank policies 100 million Latin American children are living, eating, and sleeping in the streets -- Le Monde Diplomatique