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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!cs.ruu.nl!edwin From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Look, this is depressing! I'm outta here, folks! Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:05:35 GMT Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4qbiav$bd1@krant.cs.ruu.nl> References: <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: magic.cs.ruu.nl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV) In <31C6A7A0.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: | I'm going to stop reading USENET again, I think. It does bad things for | my blood pressure. Sorry, folks.. I can see why, but I hope you don't... they're not worth it... e.g. this "aks" thing... it'll be better just ignored, but look what happened: some people even tried to help this guy. (yep, I couldn't resist following-up either) USENET (or the Internet if you want) isn't what it used to be -- that's good and bad. I remember that back in the late 80's we had a news-reader with a compiled-in max number of newsgroups: I once generously *quadrupled* that value to a huge 1024 and people told me I was wasting memory... :-) At that time you could determine people's working patterns by reading USENET news ;-| The Internet shows it is just a society: we have terrorist and people expressing their anger by spraying paint on every possible building. It happens in many newsgroups and usually it's people who don't have a clue what it is all about but only write that this x-y-z product sucks: so little effort and such great fun for them. So be it. It's not worth bothering. It won't stop a relevant number of people from buying this x-y-z product. Well, I suggest we all buy a Daemon Plushie now, hug it, smile at it and have a good time! After all, life's too short... I love free software: it's not "exactly what you pay for" -- it's much better! best regards, --[ Edwin ]-- -- Edwin H. Kremer, systems- and network administrator. <edwin.kremer@cs.ruu.nl> Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands [WHOIS: ehk3] -------------------- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/edwin/ -----------------------