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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: net overload-- comments and suggestions
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 12:32:38 EST
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> Jeff Winslow suggests that the reason for my perception of the
> net's SNR going to 0 might be based on my presumed interest
> in various subjects, an effective ad-hominem attack if I ever
> saw one...   
  
"Suggests" is a good description of my intent, "attack" is not. I apologize
if my intent was not put effectively into practice.

Must every question regarding someone else's perceptions be referred
to as an "ad-hominem attack"? If so, I think the term loses some of its
meaning.

> I respectively submit that contending a problem does not exist on the
> current net is analogous to digging a hole in the sand below
> high tide and burying one's head.

As I said, "(there) may be a technical or political problem, ..."

				yours in moderation (did I say that?),
					Jeff Winslow