Newsgroups: bit.listserv.fnord-l
Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:44:37 PDT
From:         jprovo@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU
Subject:      robert [re: brain areas]
X-To:         fnord-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

>Gee, life just keeps getting better and better.
odd; I keep seeing ignorance...

>(raby)
>> You people (some, not all) really have NO IDEA how much work you create
>> for me, and many others, when you put things in my mailbox that I will
>> most likely just delete after a few days of my not reading it.
>LESSON ONE: delete key.  learn it.  use it.  love it.
LESSON ONE: transmission.
  This message will be transmitted at varying speeds to all the people on the
mailing list, as well as to any sites that carry the newsgroup. This
transmission utilizes resources. The storage utilizes resources. For *your*
site, the resources may come as a perk/part of employment, be included in you
tuition, whatever. When it is handled as news, it is Kinda OK to have your
attitude, as only one copy of the message needs to exist on one machine for one
site [if everything is set up and handled correctly].  When it is handled as
mail, it sucks up the USER'S time [or their machine's CPU cycles if they run
filtering software] to parse thru the shit.  It sucks up disk space storing
copies of the shit. It is a *waste*. [But then, coming from a .gov site, you're
used to waste as a way of life, no?]

>are we really ACCOMPLISHING anything here?  NO.
Then I'm going to run a filter to drop anything you send. For a person
ostensibly from the usgs, I'm suprised you don't access sci.geo or whatever it
is for you stone-heads to clack to gether. You _really_ think that bouncing
about issues from Leary/raw/et al will get you nowhere? THEN GO AWAY. Even the
flaming of any such issues is important; critiqu is a refining fire.

>Deal with that.  Why does everything have to have a reason?
>what is wrong with fucking around for no good reason?
No-one ever said EVERYTHING has to - but this fucking list is CHARTERED with a
reason to exist. You want to screw around and spin in circles? Then let me
point you to alt.timewasters...or the entire talk.* heirarchy. Better yet, just
run alkong to an IRC channel and ask people what the weather is like in their
country...

>I hated that SHIT in school and I still hate it now.  I'm sure there
>is a big established base of people here who know they're on the inside
>but if I may (or even if i mayn't) quote danny elfman,
'inside'?
inside-outside, us-them, school-work, repulicrats-deomcans, push-pull; be on
your own side and don't worry about the goofs that try to put the world into
labelled recepticles.

>does "New Ways of Thinking" = "Discussion is Meaningless"?
ok, so now you take a turnaround -- I thought you were of the opinion that
everything on the networks is meaningless, chum?  Even the eductaion of lusers
How It Works?

>If you want it to be a free-association (sorry, that would put
>a label on it and limit everything) balls out hyper creative
>text orgy, then don't you have to accept whatever bullshit comes
>through the pipe?
yah, but some of us DON'T.

>maybe I'm not supposed to understand it.
fnord.

joe

Disclaimer: "I'm the only one foolish enough to claim these opinions as mine."
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