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- From: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: The Worst Song Survey and Dave by e-mail
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.174210.14609@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:42:10 GMT
- References: <1ej29gINN35l@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>
- Sender: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Reply-To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric Jones)
- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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- In article <1ej29gINN35l@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de>, mike@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann) writes:
- |>With all the hubbub about the Big Survey now, it seems that many people
- |>have overlooked some interesting little remark of Dave's. For in that
- |>one column he wrote:
- |>
- |>---
- |> And it's not just the public. It's also the media. I put a message on |> The Miami Herald's newsroom computer system, asking people to nominate
- |> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- |> the worst rock song ever, and within minutes I was swamped with
- |>---
- |>
- |>Now, doesn't that mean that the Herald at least has an internsal e-mail
- |>system? How big is the step to start a collection and give them a modem,
- |>a leased line, whatever and get The Funniest Man in America (or the known
- |>Universe) on to the Internet?
- |>
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- I dunno...if internet access affects him same way it does me, he
- wouldn't have time left to write any articles. Could we deprive ourselves
- so?
-