Re: low tech MI

[gls@livia.East.Sun.COM (Guy Steele - Sun Microsystems Labs)]

   From alan@curry.epilogue.com Tue Apr 23 01:50 EDT 1996
   ...
   True.  I thought about mentioning that when I composed my previous message,
   but I decided that since that was primarily a -performance- problem, and I
   couldn't imagine anybody arguing that accessing the slots of a condition
   had to be single-memory-reference fast, I could get away with not
   mentioning it.  Law number one of electronic mail design discussions must
   be:
   
     Anything you decide not to mention in a message because it seems like it
     would just complicate your exposition, -will- be mentioned by somebody
     else in a follow-up message.

A good law, indeed.  Maybe a partial solution is to borrow a phrase from real
lawyers and append to every message:

	The entire previous content of the Internet is hereby
	incorporated by reference.

Even more aggressive would be:

	The entire future content of the Internet is hereby
	incorporated by reference.

And, of course, thanks to WWW, this can be achieved for all practical
purposes by tacking on a coupe of well-chosen URL's, say to Lycos and Yahoo.

--Guy