From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 06:38:11 PST
on 02/04/03 03:39, Johannes Spielhagen at gottjott_at_gmx.de wrote:
[snip!]
> By the way, this educational measure of rejecting postings with more=20
> than 70 % quoted is a bit nasty. I simply forgot to cut off the rest,=20
> but I usually don't quote too much, and I wonder who else does in this=20=
Yes, I know. That happened a couple of times to me. In this case, since I
often have deleted the original message, and since the warning doesn't
include the original message, then the list just misses what I have to say,
potentially a (new) user will miss the answers I was giving him. But, that's
not a big deal. We have smaller messages on the list...
-Laurent.
-- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net fat electrons n.: Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the causation of computer glitches. Your typical electric utility draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the bottom of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or `thin' electrons, but the fat'n'sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries List FAQ/Etiquette/Terms: http://www.newtontalk.net/faq.html Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/
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