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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: astrological software
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 19:32:25 EDT
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> 
> Alright you clowns...
> 	my suggestion was serious.
> 	If you don't want the software, don't copy and compile it.
> 	I don't make fun of your religious convictions,
> 	don't make fun of mine, as this is neither
> 	net.flame
> 	net.jokes
> 	net.religion
> 
> 				Sunny
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

Oh, back off Sunny! What did you expect would happen when you 
posted that? (You listening Marty...?) No one is denying that
astronomy owes much to its roots in atronomy. No one is denying
that astrologers make the same orbit and motion calculations
that astronomers do, however...

Marty, your claim about "re-inventing the wheel" is unfounded.
I defy you to show me an astrology program that makes any
calculations that you can't get in a similar astronomy package.

Since this is astrology's last remaining common ground with astronomy,
there is no reason to include astrological software in with astronomical.

And Sunny, stop being so damn sensitive. If you feel people have
made fun of your posting (which, admittedly they have...which is a pity)
then you should have followed your own advice and posted this
request in net.religion!

Most astronomers are sensitive about astrology...most people know
that. (Including the astrologers that I know...) So why did you
post that request anyway....


-- 
                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
	"...That's enough, that's enough!
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	    Turn it off, turn it off!
	    Give me the remote control!
	    I've been nice! I've been good!
	    Please don't do this to me!
	    I've been nice, turn it off,
	    I don't wanna hav'ta see...
		...'The Brady Bunch!'"