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From: craig@scorplx.UUCP (Craig Miller)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: interesting news article
Message-ID: <134@scorplx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 14:35:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 27 14:35:36 1984
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Organization: Honeywell Info. Systems, Billerica, MA
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Ron, you forgot (or maybe you didn't see the read the rest of
the announcement):

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	'misspelled words'
		Periodically, in the process of transmitting articles
		onto the net, random words are misspelld.  This generates
		massive flames upon flames for weeks (sometimes months)
		aimed at the misspeller (and at other flamers).

	'Usenet map'
		Definitely one of the largest producers of articles.  The
		maps are distributed periodically over the entire network.
		The volume in the maps themselves is great, but is nothing
		compared to the volume of mail that is generated when the
		network readers notice numerous mistakes on the maps and
		try to notify the map makers of these mistakes.  (whose
		return path is unreachable)

	'Un*x'
		In a related announcement, AT&T confessed that Un*x
		itself was originally developed in order to increase
		long distance revenues.  Someone there forsaw the
		possible uses of an operating system which would make
		it easier to develop machine-to-machine communication
		programs over phone lines. (see below)

	'Uucp'
		Uucp was purposely written (complete with bugs, so that a
		newsgroup would be specifically created for the their
		discussion) to tie up phone lines for the maximum time
		possible.  (How many sites that use long distance to
		uucp use other long distance services besides AT&T?)  Also,
		some versions of uucp are rumored to support only short phone
		numbers which make it impossible to use some long distance
		services.

	'Usenet'
		Usenet was the final non-AI project (all of the projects
		within Usenet were AI projects) aimed at the ultimate
		good-for-nothing usage of long distance.  Rumors are that
		at AT&T each employee must post at least 5 articles per
		month to the net (those that post more get raises) to
		keep it going.

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Editor's note: the above article does not necessarily reflect the views
of my employer (or me, for that matter).

Craig Miller
..!decvax!scorplx!craig
Honeywell Information Systems; Billerica, Mass.

"A man barely alive, but we can reboot him..."