Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!gatech!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: Let's keep net.suicide alive Message-ID: <1034@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 09:57:01 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.1034 Posted: Fri Aug 9 09:57:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:45:29 EDT References: <27@tekchips.UUCP> <660@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <47@tekchips.UUCP> <702@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 29 > 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... Ah, but who else remembers net.db....