Dean
How about the following?
<quote>
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and
diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or
in some contrivance to raise prices. . But though the law cannot hinder
people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do
nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
Adam Smith,The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X
</quote>
It's not precisely on-topic, but in the same ball-park, as you say over the
pond.
Chris Mason
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Mainframes [just thinking]
Of course you do. If you want to be _sure_ that nothing you say can ever
be used to advantage by anyone outside your personally defined economic
self
interest, you might want to never post to the mailing list again.
Otherwise
you might let something slip that some aspiring mainframe technician in
Brazil might be able to put to good use.
Reading this thread, the word 'guild' kept coming to mind for some
reason...
;-).
Mark Post
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