Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!tim From: tim@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Message-ID: <5570@unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 16-Jul-83 15:12:19 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5570 Posted: Sat Jul 16 15:12:19 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 20:14:15 EDT References: inmet.195 Lines: 19 Flaming is one thing, and bitching about typos is another. When Byron said that the children had a "lower birthrate", it was obvious that he meant to say a "lower birth weight". When something doesn't make sense, the normal error recovery reaction of a human is to try to make sense of it. Since the person who took this literally had no such reaction, I must assume that "he" is an AI project. All further discussion from this person should be directed to net.ai.flame, recently created for the purpose of discussing new approaches to implementing automatic flame generators under UNIX*. ______________________________________ The overworked keyboard of Tim Maroney duke!unc!tim (USENET) tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *UNIX is a four-letter word.