Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The Eternal Youth of USENET (was: Re: The rebirth of USENET) Message-ID:Date: 22 Jun 88 21:24:15 GMT References: <585@cbnews.ATT.COM> <317@mucmot.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 In article <317@mucmot.UUCP>, ron@mucmot.UUCP (Ron Voss) writes: > In article , webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: > > ... just as unix has mistakenly been installed in alot of > > non-research environments. ... > I bet there are least a few commercial environments which don't > consider their unix installations to be mistakes. That is not inconsistant with what I said. Even if the hypothetical commercial environments were non-research, it is still not inconsistant. > ... Another >explanation would be that he is real, but an academic with no real experience. Typical comment of a 9-to-5-er with no ``real'' experience. It is common for people who only have one experience repeated day-in/day-out over-and-over to think that that is the only experience there is and that people who lack that one have no experience at all. ----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)