From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxm!u1100a!sdo Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Too many non-contributors out there Article-I.D.: u1100a.293 Posted: Tue Feb 22 17:40:33 1983 Received: Wed Feb 23 03:34:09 1983 O.K. folks. The recent questions about "CAR RT SORT" and the definition of posslq only caused a hundred or so replies to be posted on the net. Now I know that there are thousands of readers out there, so this must mean that most of you are not trying very hard, or are not very smart. Therefore, I'm going to ask a very simple question. It has puzzled me for a long time, and rather than do the laborious research, I'll let the masses answer it. The question is - Can anyone think of a word with the letter "e" in it? As is customary, please post replies to the net. And if you have a good answer, make sure you don't read ahead before replying. After all, just because someone else knows the answer, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't share the credit. In all fairness, please don't grep for the letter "e" in a dictionary file. Use your imagination. (As a sneaky trick I have included some "e" words in this very article. Try to find them first.) The purpose of all this is to get all the people who post the same replies to the net to become so occupied that the rest of us can unsubscribe to this newsgroup, and conduct a proper news network, and find other topics to complain about. If anyone thinks that this should be in net.flame, you are right, but I'm putting it here anyway. So there. Send gifts and money to: Scott Orshan Bell Labs Piscataway 201-981-3064 houxm!u1100a!sdo