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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14633 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3320 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen `Tell me three times' Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Report on SVNET: Bill Jolitz's Talk; Mind Overload. Date: 20 Aug 1994 16:42:10 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 35 Message-ID: <335bp2$rmi@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <jmonroyCuq5J1.Fy8@netcom.com> <CurL98.BzM@kithrup.com> <jmonroyCutqvs.LM9@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us [Ugh... I can't believe I'm getting into this...] In article <jmonroyCutqvs.LM9@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes: >>> From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) >>> line, meaning your posts are, what, about 33% wastage? > If my math was as bad as your, I'd say you were right. As jmonroy's post was represented on my newsfeed it was 6902 bytes. Of that, 4018 bytes consisted of quoted material, 1106 bytes were header. This leaves 1778 bytes for "content." Of this "content," we find 227 are for the signature, 63 new-lines and 513 spaces. For the "content," spaces make up about 28.9%. Of course, a number of those are necessary to make even partial sense of the postings, but for an off-the-wall attempt at sarcasm, sef came pretty close. A couple more percentages... jmonroy text / quoted text: 44.3% jmonroy text / entire text: 38.6% > In your case, it a good reason for a labotomy(sp?). <grin> The word that was apparently meant was lobotomy. -tomy being a suffix meaning "incision" and "lob-" being from "lobe," referring to the frontal lobes of the brain. Not too many lobotomies are performed these days... However, that misspelling lends credence to the premise that jmonroy's postings come from an AI lab somewhere ;-) -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@vt.edu ** MacBSD == NetBSD/Mac ** "We'll call you when you're 6 years old and drag you to the factory to drain your brain for 18 years with promise of security, but then you're free and 40 years you waste to chase the dollar sign so you may die in Florida"