Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!sactoh0!bfbreedl
From: bfbreedl@sactoh0.UUCP (Bob F. Breedlove)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: GROK THIS!!
Summary: Point Missed!?!?
Keywords: grok
Message-ID: <571@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 15:28:22 GMT
References: <1289@leah.Albany.Edu> <3454@ttidca.TTI.COM> <767@quintus.UUCP> <1803@scolex>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
Lines: 18

In article <1803@scolex>, brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes:
> In article <767@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >
> >To quote the book "'grok' means 'drink'".  (Hence "absorb completely".)
> 
> Any way, this topiuc doesn't really belong in this group
> anymore.  

It seems to me that the series of messages discussing the origin of
this term have missed a more important point -- what is such an
obscure term doing in a message in the first place? Error and
informative messages SHOULD NOT require several hundred (?)
messages to clarify their meaning. Imaging if this had been an
ERROR message!

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Bob Breedlove  SYSOP: BOBsBBS (916/929-7511)
        pacbell!sactoh0!bfbreedl