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From: ee461@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: flame at nameless people who submit garbage
Message-ID: <2462@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 19:54:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.2462
Posted: Tue Aug  2 19:54:08 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 00:09:56 EDT
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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There was a recent submission to one of the newsgroups which looked like this:

>	I quote someone at [site name]:
>	
>	[quotation]
>
>	A [some technical issue] is utterly, TOTALLY, and irrevocably
>	UNRELATED to [another technical issue]. The perceptual effects of
>	the two [results] are likewise utterly dissimilar.
>	Good GRIEF!	Good night!
>	
>	[random characters (site name)] ! [random characters (user id)]

I've edited out the actual contents of [] brackets as it is irrelevant here.
This flame is about methods used in discussion by some people.

The stuff above was meant as a critique of one of my articles. But even if I
inadvertently said some nonsense, I'd expect to see a rational argument that
would prove to me (and to others) that I was incorrect. The polemical abilities
that were exhibited by whoever submitted this garbage appear to be developed
about as much as one would expect from an AI program written by a freshman
on his first programming assignment. If you say that something is wrong, SHOW
IT !! At least one person would benefit from your pearls of wisdom. And if your
only contribution is "Good GRIEF" and "Good night", SEND IT TO /dev/null !!

Also, I don't like to be referred to as "someone". This is why I sign my
articles. Why some people don't sign their submissions ? The signature is
at least a clue that an article was conceived in a human brain, and not by
some AI miscarriage that is run from crontab once daily using randomly chosen
news items as input!

				Krzysztof Kozminski
				(ee461@rochester)

PS. No insult to freshmen, AI or crontab was meant.