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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,news.misc,comp.bbs.misc,alt.amateur-comp,alt.culture.usenet,talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: A Paper on the Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 16:26:14 -0500
- Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
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- References: <t29qqv-@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Dec10.192501.181@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1g8k4hINN3d2@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Dec11.002711.8145@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In <1992Dec11.002711.8145@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
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- >In article <1g8k4hINN3d2@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
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- >>I think the author of this paper should go back and re-read the FAQ on
- >>what Usenet is NOT.
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- >Your own argument betrays you here. Since Usenet is an anarchy, there's no
- >real reason he should accept that FAQ as an authoritative description of
- >Usenet.
-
- WRONG! It's not only an authoritative description of Usenet, it is all
- 100% FACTS. In fact, (see? another fact!) it describes the history all
- of networks. It describes the history of all history. It even has a
- chapter about the town you were born in. In fact, it covers your
- birth! It's 843 volumes long! ...oops, wrong reality.
-
- ----
-
- I didn't say it was an authoritative description of anything. I also
- didn't say that it is a description of what *is* Usenet.
-
- Have you read it yourself? It is a very well-written discussion about
- what Usenet isn't. Nothing more. However it would have been useful
- in preparing the paper. I hope the paper gets a good grade.
-
- Tom
-
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