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  1. Newsgroups: soc.history
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: KILLing Sendar
  5. In-Reply-To: allen@tessi.com's message of 18 Nov 92 23:44:13 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Nov18181132@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <92323.115652DXZ102@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov18.234413.17876@tessi.com>
  11. Date: 18 Nov 92 18:11:32
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  14. I suspect the original poster didn't understand what killing means in
  15. a newsreader.  I suspect he thought it meant removing the article in
  16. such a way that no-one could read it.
  17. --
  18. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  20. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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