Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot From: chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Welcome to Usenet 1984 Message-ID: <4039@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 10:37:30 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.4039 Posted: Mon Oct 29 10:37:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 08:18:42 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 16 flairvax!kissell == > > I don't subscribe to net.singles, so when the williams@kirk brouhaha spilled > over into net.news, I checked out the back issues. I was suprised to find > that the articles in question were short, crisply written, and pretty funny. > Offensive as they might have been to some, I found them much better than his > rambling attempts to sieze control of net.philosophy a few months ago. Some > folks are just better at scatology than ontology, I guess... Scatology requires less than ontology--less intelligence, less wit, less education--on both the generating end and the receiving end. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, MR03-1/K20, 2 Iron Way, Marlborough, MA 01752 shadow: [ISSN 0018-9235 v21 #10 p81, bottom vt100, col3, next to next to last]