Re: Pyramidiocy, Facts to refute it (Shortened)
Doug Riblet (dbriblet@students.wisc.edu)
25 Aug 1995 03:52:39 GMT
Whittet@shore.net (Whittet) wrote:
>In article <neiln.17.303AB088@wave.co.nz>, neiln@wave.co.nz says...
>>Please note that alt.folklore.urban is not an archaeology group.
>>Posts of 500+ lines of which 80% is quoted text do nothing for me
>>personally and waste bandwidth on the grand scale when they are
>>distributed thoughtlessly
>Aside from the fact the discussion would have been a bit difficult to follow
>if the items at issue were not referenced, and that when it come to wasting
>bandwidth there are 1389 separate articles just in this group alone, how does
>it save bandwidth to make a frivolous follow up?
Because the frilovous follow-up might, just might (I'm being wildly
optimistic here), result in someone not crossposting future articles
of this sort to alt.folklore.urban & several other unrelated groups.
>The zen koan comes to mind here.
Personally, I prefer the Hazelnut.
Doug "If you post this stuff here again, I'll wrap you in my
zen cocoon of horrors" Riblet
*******************************************************************
Doug Riblet | The notion that one reads to increase
Now only underemployed | one's self-esteem sounds to me like
Higher OPS than Kevin | more snake oil. Literature is not
Stocker or Howard Johnson | an aerobics class or a session at the
dbriblet@students.wisc.edu | therapist's. -- Katha Pollitt
|