Re: getting a life -- available via ftp?

Stephen Boyd Gowing (sbg@nospam.fox-in.socs.uts.EDU.AU)
Fri, 4 Nov 1994 16:21:15 +1100

On Fri, 4 Nov 1994, Christopher Fraser wrote:

> Quoteth the Computer Society blurb in 1994 Year in Review Plexus:
>
> > The name `Computer Society' invokes extreme negativity. People
> > automatically imagining a whole lot of nerds playing computer games
> > and programming for fun. The Computers Society is NOT a programmer's
> > club.
>
> Now, I can understand that the Computer Society is upset they don't
> have their own Sun, but this name calling simply won't do ...

If we'd seen that before ours was put together,..

``...imagine being trapped on a small boat with a whole lot of drunk
nerds. The Programmers' Society is NOT...''

sbg