On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:10:57 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The intent of my OP was to supply historical information, not to stir up bootless controversy. Controversy? Most of the comments have been light-hearted and/or a comment that it's been "Authorized" for 30 years or so. >... >Let me also note that I stopped posting regularly in this forum chiefly because I found myself feeling and, worse, exhibiting less and less patience with the effluvia of gratuitous, because radically uninformed, responses that my posts too often elicited. ... Gratuitous? Well, we didn't charge for our comments. And they weren't solicited. But then, niether was your original post. Radically uninformed? I don't think so. I think we are fairly typically, customarily uninformed. Nothing radical there at all. >... >I now regret breaching my silence on this occasion; and I shall in the future try to exhibit even greater restraint, limiting myself to an occasional éloge. >... Bye. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
