Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/12/84; site iddic.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!iddic!rick 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 Article-I.D.: iddic.1858 Posted: Tue Nov 27 12:49:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:32:10 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 32 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). > Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/12/84; site iddic.UUCP > Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA > Path: iddic!orca!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!"Jerry E. Pournelle"> From: "Jerry E. Pournelle" > Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm > Subject: Microsystems/Tech Journal > Message-ID: <5930@brl-tgr.ARPA> > Date: 20 Nov 84 10:20:01 GMT > Date-Received: 23 Nov 84 07:51:06 GMT > Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA > Organization: Ballistic Research Lab > Lines: 5 > > 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 ...!tektronix!iddic!rick (csnet has problems at our site)