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From: wildbill@ucbvax.ARPA (William J. Laubenheimer)
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Subject: Re: USENET Awards, anyone?
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 17:43:40 EST
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> ... I think "The Laubenheimer Awards" has just the esoteric
> ring to it that is needed!! Why isn't your name available? After all, the
> Pulitzer Prize is named after ITS orginator, the Nobel Prize after ITS
> originator -- I think we should seriously entertain the idea.

> Gary Benson m/s232e  -*- John Fluke Mfg Co  Box C9090 -*-  Everett WA 98206 USA

After thinking about this for a while, and continuing to have feelings of
unease, I finally figured out why it didn't sound right. Those honors are
prizes, which were created \\and funded// by the person involved. Such
a person has a perfect right to name the award after himself.

The award-type honors are usually named after some prominent figure in
the field, or after their physical appearance (sometimes, e.g., Nebulas
in SF, the causality of this relationship is reversed). Since I am not
proposing anything but recognition for the honored parties (on my budget?
You've got to be kidding!), I must once again decline this nomination.

                                        Bill Laubenheimer
----------------------------------------UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     ...Killjoy went that-a-way--->     ucbvax!wildbill