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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Let's keep net.suicide alive
Message-ID: <702@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 00:44:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcnc.702
Posted: Fri Aug  9 00:44:33 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:37:07 EDT
References: <27@tekchips.UUCP> <660@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <47@tekchips.UUCP>
Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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In article <47@tekchips.UUCP> wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler) writes:
>
>Revisionism?  Naw, just provincialism.  Both Tom and Byron are
>correct within their respecitive contexts.  The earlier (and
>decidedly weirder) net.suicide never made it out to this neck of
>the woods until the motorcycle helmet discussion got going.
>Actually, my major rememberance of net.suicide is a wonderful
>article by Byron (himself!) about driving with your headlights
>off at night.

Hmmm.  Your memory must be better than mine.  I remember the article,
but don't remember writing it....  Ah well, that's what happens when
you get to be over 40.

>But, speaking of provincialism, come on Byron!  What kind of
>line is "those of us who witnessed it should be content in our
>knowledge"?  I've never known you to shy away from a typewriter.
>I'm not "content in my knowledge", and would love to see your
>version of this group's birth (besides, when did you start
>believing in an absolute reality?).

I couldn't possibly describe it in all its richness.  Until bimmler
herself comes forward I must remain silent.  There are larger things at
stake here.

Net reality is not absolute reality.  I'm not sure what kind of reality
net reality is if it is any kind of reality at all...

				Keepin net.suicide alive...
					for old times sake,
-- 

						Byron C. Howes
				      ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch