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- From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <Bz6t19.EC6@world.std.com>
- Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
- References: <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <1gbjhdINNjs7@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:34:21 GMT
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- In article <1gbjhdINNjs7@life.ai.mit.edu> gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) writes:
- >
- >> patriot.mit.edu is not a vanity server. If you look at how slow
- >> irc.mit.edu is (as well as csd.bu.edu) you will understand why it is
- >> needed.
- >
- >> NOW, I do disagree with some ops on that server, but it does not make
- >> it vanity....
- >
- >
- >You're mistaken. Any server that I have op on is a vanity server.
- >Ask Wumpus; he's the one who invented the term to describe me. Or, if
- >he didn't invent it, he at least popularized it.
-
- But what if I have op on it--what's the special term then? Enquiring
- minds want to know.
- -- K.
-