Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Terrorist tactics (Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?) Message-ID: <6272@ficc.uu.net> Date: 24 Sep 89 17:36:10 GMT References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <11578@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 (This message violates the RFC) In article <11578@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) writes: > This would probably be a good time to point out that at no time did I > state that I had actually installed the code to [drop articles] Well, you strongly implied it. > Perhaps "terrorist tactics" is a bit > premature and (in my opinion) a bit of a loaded phrase. I agree it's a loaded phrase. Just like other loaded phrases, such as "evil and rude", it was intended to convey my string distaste for the action you were advocating. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)