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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: STUDENTS GO AWAY!!!!!!!??????
Date: 1997/05/04
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Daniel said

<<Nope : Basically the first message was a FOLLOW-UP to
       an E-mail he got

Mr. Bunny says he got a disturbing E-mail which says students shouldn't
post to CLA, then says he does not believe the statements about all
Ada students in the world flooding the group, and simple logic supports
his claim>>

No that's plain wrong, the subject line of this thread was indeed typed
into the computer by mrbunny and no one else! The "disturbing email"
that you refer to (but which you have not seen) was a message from me
that suggested that before posting questions asking for help on
assignments, it was appropriate to make an effort to find out answers
for yourself, and I pointed him to www.adahome.com among other sources.

He reacted by posting the message that gave rise to this thread -- I think
he misinterpreted what I said (I have subsequently tried to make my position
clear -- and it is one which I think most people understand -- and indeed I
have subsequently exchanged a number of messages with mrbunny and as you
may have noticed, he found this and other exchanges helpful (and posted
a message to this effect).

P.S. I suspect that the great majority of other people on this newsgroup
immediately detected the irony in my original statement. I didn't consider
a smiley appropriate, since the whole point of ironic statements is that
they are delivered as though serious, but intended to be immediately
understood as non-serious. The fact that you did not pick up on it is
of course the joke, and that does warrant a smiley :-)

P.P.S. The reason I maintain this silly subject line is so that all those
who have killed it already will not see these messages. I suspect that
is a large number of readers :-)

P.P.P.S. One cannot followup an email message, the word followup is used
in this environment to refer to replies to posted messages. The initial
message in such a thread has a subject coined by the creator of the thread,
as in this case.