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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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>Aaron is clearly not a true BWP!

Geez, just because my *DOG* doesn't have an account...

My point in mentioning Freenet was the direct phone numbers, not telnet."

I don't know of any freenets in/around NYC.  If there was one, I'm
sure the line would be busy 24 hours a day.

--Aaron
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, still alive"
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>It makes sense in that it's how you connect to the mainframe at NYU.

When you dial-in, the first prompt you get lets you type "connect acf1",
or whatever mainframe you want.  But you can also type TELNET, wait a
few seconds until it drops you into the TELNET program, and THEN try to
connect, but still only to the NYU computers.

--Aaron
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Swedish cake mix

>Groan.  Not the 'peccavi' joke again! :-)
>
>G

Anyone who pronounces Hindu, Buddhist and Sindh with a hard 'd'
is illiterate.

tushar
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:35:30 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <01GIOGKF0URS95MNFL@CWU.BITNET> CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Lobstrosities Unite) writes:
>Gosh, Graham. I didn't realize we all had to speak and use the same terminology
>as do you.  Around here, Turing Machine is understood as any device that runs
>(notice I didn't say, "can run") the Turing Test.  That's how it was taught to
>me (in a basic sort of way).

Well, if you are going to use technical terms you ought to use them in the
same way as your peers.  I'm not sure where folks round 'here' picked up
the idea that a Turing Machine == a Turing-test machine, but it's just
plain wrong and I wouldn't like our non-CS readers to pick up a bit
of technical jargon and use it incorrectly.

>What was Turing most noted for? I think for his statement (and subsequent
>proof, at least in his mind) that a computer, given the right environment, etc,
>could be passed off as a person.  Or, more correctly, that a subject could not
>guess, by the responses received, whether the responder was human or computer.

He was *most* noted for the Church-Turing thesis on the halting problem;
after that he was noted for his proof that all computation models can be
reduced to a Turing machine.  The Turing-test stuff was just a bit of
fun in the pub one evening.

>On what device did he initially run these tests?  On a Turing Machine.

He didn't run them on anything - it was a gedanken experiment at the
time - but if he did he most certainly would *not* have run them one
a turning machine.  For a start, there was a shortage of semi-infinite
tapes at the time because of the war.

>Can I suggest, Graham, that if you feel the need to show off your Public School
>Education, you try not to be such a weenie about it.

*chortle*.  If you meant that in the British sense of private school, you
couldn't be more wrong.  I went to a secondary modern which still thought
it was a grammar school in an area where 90% of the students (including
myself) were the children of coal-miners.

Graham
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From:         QXN148%URIACC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Help

Hi it's nearing the end of the semester and I have been assigned a project for
my econ 342 class, public finance.
I have to do an annotated biblioghraphy on Wagners Law.  We have not covered
this in class and  know nothing about it.  I would have choosen something else
but all the good topics were gone, that's what i get for sitting in the back of
 the room.
Can the economists give me a clue.

                                  Thank You,

                                      Lisa
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deserving Flames
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>Sayeth        Steve Portigal <stevep@SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA>
>
>> The Ronin sez: that most dreadful of STD's, the *unwanted*
>> child.
>
>> Come on!  A child is never a DISEASE!  I think it would be a very
>> difficult situation if I fathered a child unintentionally, but I would
>> never consider that child a disease.  I'm not sure if you're
>> being facetious here, but I find it offensive that you would talk
>> about a baby in those terms.
>
>> A child who is unwanted may have a difficult, perhaps terrible life, but they
>> will never be a disease.
>
>     Gladly.  First, I said 'unwanted', you said 'unintentional'.  Not
>the same thing.  You made it quite clear that you would still welcome
   I certainly did NOT say any such thing.  Who said I would keep
the child, or be part of its upbringing up?  I made no conclusions.

>the child even if it were unexpected.  You spoke of the child that was
>born as if it would bear the brunt of the problems.  What about the
>child who bore it?
    Why is it only young people who create unwanted babies?  If you are
going to talk about the whole situation, don't just focus in on a specific
group.  There may be (and I doubt anyone has accurate, verifiable stats)
more *unwanted* pregnancies with young (child you said, without defining it)
mothers, but that is not the only case.
>The child whose life will (in a large number of
>cases) be over now that a baby has come?  Who must drop out of school,
>accept either menial work or government handouts in order to survive,
>who will be treated as a pariah until she proves herself?  Our society
>is improving on the treatment of these people, it still has long way
>to go.  Anyone doubting this hasn't been living in the 'right'
>neighborhoods.
    Certainly it would be a terrible burden, no doubt.  But not always.
There are cases when it works out for the best, though I would expect that
was rare.  I do not think one's life is over when a baby arrives.  One's
life may *change* but that does not mean it's over.  That's really a
pessimistic view.  We must adapt to survive.  Friends die, jobs are lost,
babies are born -- these do not end our lives, they change them.

>     Steve, existing life may have a sacredness, but the
>indescriminate creation of life is not sacred to me.  This doesn't
>mean kill the baby after it is born, but it does mean that I don't
>find birth to always be a positive thing.  I do not mean to offend
>with this, but it is how I feel.
>
   What I do find offensive is that you characterize the baby as a disease.
You have not explained or justified this.  I expect that is because you cannot
do so -- there is no way to equate the two.

>
From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:41:20 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.

In article <WORDS-L%92040901451325@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The Ronin) writes:
:Sayeth        Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS@CWU.BITNET>
:
:>And a child doesn't internalize the rules so much as internalizing their
:>understanding of the system. That's why children have grammatical
:>inconsistencies: *doggses* and *feets* for instance. Their understanding of the
:>system is incomplete.  And yet, to form plurals, using your rule-based (dare I
:>say) system, they must have internalized some sort of "plural" rule. But the
:>rule breaks down very quickly. If, on the other hand, they've absorbed a
:>system, their system can self-correct instead of having to internalize yet
:>another rule and maybe another until they finally get the correct rule.
:
:     Your examples are part of English, but are they truly part of
:grammar?  Never mind, because the same effect can be seen with
:exceptions to how to form tenses ('goed' for 'gone').  Onward.
:
:     This sounds like your rules have to be iron-clad and unbreakable,

If you guys are actually interested in this and aren't just arguing for
the sake of it, I can recommend an extremely good book on the subject:
"Cognitive Processes in Spelling" edited by Uta Frith, Academic Press.

Graham
PS Election stop-press - the Tory *party chairman* just lost his
seat, and he looks as if he's going to cry :-)  [the bad news is
that it looks like the buggers will get back in by a few seats]
-- 
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Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
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              10 Apr 92 20:35:30 +0000. <9204110050.AA21497@sics.se>

  Graham writes, about Turing:

>He was *most* noted for the Church-Turing thesis on the halting problem;
>after that he was noted for his proof that all computation models can be
>reduced to a Turing machine.

  Graham, you're talking through your hat in a loud and booming voice.
There is no such thing as the "Church-Turing thesis on the halting problem".
Turing never proved that all computation models can be reduced to a
Turing machine.

  >I wouldn't like our non-CS readers to pick up a bit
  >of technical jargon and use it incorrectly.

  Hmmm..
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      A solution to all BWP problems

Has anyone here ever suggested perhaps setting up a permanent WORDS-L/BWP
channel on IRC?  I could put my bot there, and thus have a nice place for
everyone to hang out and stop wasting precious bandwith with all the lags and
silly headers and such.  Whaddya think? :)

--Aaron, about to get flamed and flanged
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From:         Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Conversation Stoppers
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>>        Yes, as a matter of fact.  We're looking for a Membership Director.
>>
>let's have the job description....

        Person has to have experience building a membership base (the
person
we're looking at now has done this for everyone from Amnesty International
to the Tsongas campaign) and must be very familiar with online culture.
We basically want to increase our membership base exponentially over the
next year.  Sorry I don't have a formal description at the moment.  I'll
post it when I do if people want it.

Rita
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39)
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Sez The Czarina:

>My Dad is an MTV addict.  I think he just likes watching all them pretty
>young things hoppin' and jigglin' around in videos.

To which I answer: Fuggin' ay!  Right on, Mr. R!  You're my age, right?
Forty-eight, graying, proud, and NOT DEAD!  My kids are scandalized when
I put on MTV, or don't immediately switch it off when I land on it.
My older one, especially, thinks it's somehow inappropriate for ol'
dad to watch stuff like that: he's at that age (almost 14) where he is
starting to think I live to embarrass him.  Only when I'm awake, Jake,
kid....

Ken
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From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: RE: Jones
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> I'll go for the Danish tack (get a good start). But that couldn't be why
> we can't make it to bwp.

Oh yes it could!  I wish I had my sociolinguistics textbook (Wardhaugh) at
home right now so that I could quote an interesting passage from it about
Danes and silence.
   --Natalie

Next you're going to catalog head topology at the clambake!  -Don
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List Moved: WORDS-L English Language Discussion G

> YOU feel redundant!  Lookit who I have to share my dot with!
>
> --Fwp, technogeek with a words-l t-shirt.

Just think -- one of the early suggestions for the t-shirt was to have
a picture of Bernardykins growing out of Ra.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:22:11 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
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              10 Apr 1992 12:44:00 PST from <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:44:00 PST Lobstrosities Unite said:
>Aren't you gone yet?
>
>P.S. Would you send me your address. I keep writing it down and then losing it.

For the 27th time.....my address is

dan lester
box 7606
boise id  83707


and as always, postcards are welcome.

in case anyone really wants to embarrass our demure, married, conservative
secretary, send any not TOO scandalous things to the sig address below.
(you can be SURE they won't embarrass Jerry, who handles much of the mail...
he is a worse dirty old man than me.)


dan

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* Dan Lester                          Bitnet:   alileste@idbsu              *
* Associate University Librarian      Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu    *
* Boise State University                                                    *
* Boise, Idaho  83725                 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak  *
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET%UGA.CC.UGA.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
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> Under the circumstances, Karen, I thought you were also quite polite.
> ndh

Thank you, I am practicing in case I am offered the job in Memphis I
interviewed for.  (It just kills me that the cost of living is approx.
the same as here, but there is more to DOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!  I want this
job, even if I have to learn to be polite for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Whew.

Karen
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

>Neal, it seems to me that baseball announcers are not nearly as bad as football
>announcers about creating their own vocabulary to describe things for which we
>already have perfectly good words.  This act of excessive vocabularizing....
>
>Janet

Well, maybe not since Dizzy Dean anyway.

macmillm@ewc
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: The Zariski topology (was Re: music and math)
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              09 Apr 92 05:28:18 CDT." <9204090748.aa10547@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>:
>The late thirties of Zariski's life constituted a very special interlude.
>He had lost patronage of Count Bourbaki there was an enormous debt on his
>head.
>

	I'll leave Count Bourbaki for Virupaksha to explain when the inevitable
gleaning comes.

... (rhapsody on a theme of Zariski,  with much name-dropping (presumably
gleanings-bait) omitted) ...

>PS  The internationally acclaimed treatment of Atiyah and Macdonald has
>now been digitally recorded. Copies of the file can be got by email.

	Where do I send?  I need this!
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
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              15 Apr 92 09:59:59 +0200. <9204150801.AA05296@sics.se>

  I wrote:

  >f(f(x))=x     for all x in the domain of f

  >fof=I        where I is the identity.

  Now, even though most of you people aren't even awake, I seem to feel
a great wave of corrections coming at me. So let me quickly change these
incorrect equations to

  f(f(x))=f(x)

  fof=f
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Elvis Stamp

Threateneth   Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>

> Right...we are likely to get All Shook Up if Bob acts like a Hound Dog
> about our Elvis memories.

     In a recent, somewhat idle, conversation, it was noted how easy
it would be set up lasers on the Science building on campus to beam a
hologram into a neighboring church.  When the topic turned to what
image should shown, I suggested Elvis as appropriate.

     Doubt this will get me out of the doghouse.

The Ronin
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 8 Apr 92 09:46:54
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In-reply-to: Tushar Samant's message of Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:33:21 CDT

Tushar opines:

   I don't understand. In all the comics I read, the druid's name is Getafix.
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And aptly so ... in the English translations.  

   On a wall inscription in a corner, you will find the letters gamma omicron
   sigma kappa iota ... with a start I realized that Goscinny and Uderzo had
   out their names in there.

I  believe you will find their names "hidden" in each of the comics -- a la
Hitchcock, what.

   Tintin coming to Nepal similarly heightened my confidence in their accuracy.
   What a passerby shouts at Haddock is exactly what a passerby would shout in
   India, and it is written accurately in Hindi. And I have a notion that even
   translating "Billions of blue blistering barnacles" was a major achievement.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just saying "billions of blue blistering barnacles" is a major achievement.

   I probably have a yuppie mentality, but I think that Asterix (and Tintin) ARE
   superior to all the Spidermans and Supermans and Flash Gordons. All the
   American comics we got to read were DC comics (and Phantom and Mandrake) but
   they didn't impress me at all. Oh yes, there was another distasteful thing
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   called Archie. Let's not talk about it.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

No, let's.  Far be it for me to differ ... but wotthehell ... yer outta
there, big time on this one, Tush.  _Archie_ et.al. is to growing up
American as marmite is to creating that British "stiff upper lip" ;^)
(marmite, now *that's* distasteful).  You see no use in _Archie_ and I see
no use in marmite; but, I believe I am correct in saying that they each
form part of the building blocks that distinguish us as American or British.

You challenge the foundations of my socialization as an American.  Hmpf.
Ok, not really, but you're talking fighting words here.  Where would we be
without the Partridge Family, the Brady Bunch, The Archies, The Jackson
Five, The Monkees, Bugs Bunny, Yogi and the rest?  

BTW, I grew up in Lahore (til I was seven) and besides chai, chappatis &
curry w/my ayah, Fanta & 7Up, I remember the comics  -- Archie and Donald
Duck, most notably -- I still have some of them tucked away in a drawer
somewhere.  Took me a while to realize they were American products and not
Pakistani -- but then, it took me a while to realize *I* wasn't Pakistani
as much as I wished I were when I came to live in the States.  (Now there's
a story for childhood abuse by ones peers!  Still have a hard time
accepting that Americans aren't as ignorant as the majority appear.)

//anne//
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39)

I'm a little fuzzy on all the details, but in the large adventure
game in order to gain access to one of the treasures, you have to
press colored tiles in the order fuschia, n.., orange, red, d..
(I forget the other two colors, they're exotic) ... that spells the
word "fnord" which is something significant in dwarf-speak

Steve Karlson

I wonder if any fnords were dwelling in the utility tunnels below
Chicago?
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: penmanship
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:06:05 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <9204121627.AA02205@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
:> I frequently cannot think coherently when I am at the keyboard. (Which
:> shows up in the postings, no doubt.) In any case, I'll be darned if I
:
:Me too.  I must admit that as much as I adore computers, I still usually
:start something "real" (e.g., an article I'm working on) with pen and ink
:on a legal pad.  Maybe I'm in some sort of strange transitional stage
:between the old way and the new, though, because I can never *finish*
:the things I start on a legal pad that way.  I find myself moving to the
:computer pretty quickly.
:   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)


My handwriting was appaling at primary school, middling at secondary
school, and acceptable at university because I spent most of the
summer between school and university practicing writing.

However I honestly can't remember the last time I picked up a
pen or a pencil.  Filling in a form probably.  There's just no need
for writing on paper nowadays.  I've also managed to wean myself
off hacking using listings - I can manage most stuff directly on
screen.  I find the waste of paper from writing or printing
objectionable, when mostly it isn't necessary.

My handwriting hasn't deteriorated because of this either.

Graham
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