Re: virus: maxims and ground rules and suppositions

Traumatic Dog (waste@zor.hut.fi)
Tue, 18 May 1999 01:52:35 +0300 (EEST)

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Rhonda Chapman wrote:

> Response to message Eric Boyd wrote Sunday, May 16, 1999 9:34 AM:
>
> My apologies to ERiC and Hermit for sounding as though I disapprove your
> discussion. I expressed myself poorly. I was attempting to indicate that
> anything over my head, I tend to tune out. In addition, I was suggesting
> that our final maxims need to be simple enough for easy comprehension by
> anyone who stumbles into the "Church". I was NOT attempting to suggest that
> your discourse was inappropriate. Anyone not up to it can ignore it. Those
> who are, can get involved and have a nice mind stretching experience.
>
> >On the other hand, my other major project at the moment, an epistemology of
> >email, is something that this group needs *desperately*. The medium of
> email has >proven to be a poor one for knowledge creation -- and so we need
> a patch.
>
> I fear you lost me there.

Anyone know any good greppable ASCII text dictionaries?

They would be incredibly handy. Those WWW-ones are too damn slow to use, and I would prefer a text file which I could just grep for the word.