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   Message 351 of 2,235   
   joss wright to Raistlin   
   Re: AI (again)   
   28 Oct 03 17:09:35   
   
   496808ab   
   From: joss@nospampleasewerebritish.nekrodomos.net   
      
   On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:07:23 +0000, Raistlin wrote:   
      
   > joss wright wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:44:21 +0000, Raistlin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>harlequin wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>having said all that, my PhD is in computer security (anonymity) and not   
   >>>>AI!   
   >>>>   
   >>>>	joss   
   >>>   
   >>>Hey are you the harlequin with the bot that posts FAQs to alt.2600?   
   >>>   
   >>>R.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> nope. sorry.   
   >>   
   >> 	joss. (formerly harlequin. now just joss).   
   >   
   > So that makes 3 comp/sec Harlequins I have met then... :o)   
   >   
   > A nym beloved of Sysadmins and Marillion fans, I guess.   
   >   
   > R.   
      
   and english rugby players :o)   
      
   actually. that's one of the reasons i've stopped using it. there's always   
   one there already when you sign up for something, and it's too long to be   
   used as a name anyway, no-one has EVER called me anything except joss   
   (well... nothing that i can repeat in a public forum).   
      
   	joss   
   --   
   "A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised   
   if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how   
   efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they   
   are unjust"                           - Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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