From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,630c12e823d1bdf4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-13 05:25:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: New Ada compiler for .NET Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:31:07 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3E22B18B.71C94F4D@brighton.ac.uk> References: <1040653133.613605@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3e18f3f3_1@news.tm.net.my> <6KwmrO7CZtnj@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1042460983 6184 193.62.183.204 (13 Jan 2003 12:29:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jan 2003 12:29:43 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32960 Date: 2003-01-13T12:29:43+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <3e18f3f3_1@news.tm.net.my>, Adrian Hoe writes: > > > I find off-topic entertaining, sometime. Agree not? > > There will be some off-topics of interest to some people, but others > will only be annoyed each time. The reason Usenet is not one giant > newsgroup is so that people can segregate their interests and join > only the discussions that _they_ are interested in. This all started as a result of a flippant remark I made on the original thread about access to .mil servers from outside the US (complete with smiley). Who would have thought an innocent attempt at humour would generate so much heat and so little light? ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------