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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: CFV? What's a CFV??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.183845.15975@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <97600@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov15.130803.12664@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <BALDWIN.92Nov16195410@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:38:45 GMT
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- In article <BALDWIN.92Nov16195410@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
- >>So there IS a standard of importance that is deemed to be "more
- >>important" than others...
- >I'm sure you can find counterexamples (maybe you *are* a
- >counterexample), but it seems to me that there is a pretty broad
- >USENET consensus (among the knowledgeable) that one should read the
- >appropriate documents and take a little time familiarizing oneself
- >with the conventions and procedures of USENET before posting,
- >particularly to administrative groups concerned with the net's
- >configuration.
-
- There is a difference between "one should read..." meaning that it's a good
- idea to read, and "one should read..." meaning that people who don't read
- should not be taken seriously when they speak.
-
- The former does indeed have a broad consensus to it. The latter, perhaps
- less so. Appealing to a "broad consensus" for the latter, when the consensus
- supports only the former, is equivocation.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
- INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
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