[rescue] Usenet, scotch & weapons

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 11:36:24 CDT 2010


Tom Manos wrote:
> Seeing Rich's post got me to thinking more about the olden days and the olden
> net luminaries and denizens...
>
>> From Gene Spafford:
> Around 1987, I formulated my three axioms of Usenet, with corollaries:

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea-- massive, 
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of 
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
--Gene Spafford

Peace...  Sridhar



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