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From: rick@iddic.UUCP (Rick Coates)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Is this really Mr. Pournelle?
Message-ID: <1858@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 12:49:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:49:24 1984
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Is this really from Jerry Pournelle, science fiction author and columnist
in Byte Magazine - or is someone on the net impersonating him?
(Remember moscvax, et al).

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> From: "Jerry E. Pournelle" 
> Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
> Subject: Microsystems/Tech Journal
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> Date: 20 Nov 84 10:20:01 GMT
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> I met Susan Gelpert-Cole, Ph.D., one of the editors of PC Tech
> Journal at COMDEX.  She's sharp.  The magazine may not be a bad
> buy.  Me, I never saw one before.  Obviously  fyou don't care
> for PC you won't want it since it is a captive; Susan says they
> do not write about PClones even yet already.

I find it hard to believe that a professional writer would put out something
like this, even to a limited public audience.  Several of the other recent
submissions from POURNE@mit-mc are similar in English quality.  Typos
are one thing, 'even yet already' is another.


Rick Coates
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