From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 23 16:56:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02960 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02949 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA03190; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:53:51 -0800 (PST) To: Greg Lehey cc: Terry Lambert , nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:03:47 +1030." <19980224110347.29951@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:53:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3186.888281630@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Actually, "leeches and anemia" are a bad example. It seems that > > leeches work in this case ("New England Journal of Medicine", March 1989, > > or thereabouts, I believe... though I could be mistaken, and it might > > have been "Lancet"). > > I think you've just made Jordan's point. Well, I was sort of inclined to give Terry the benefit of the doubt on this one since, for all I know, some berserk set of researchers somewhere *have* figured out a way of getting bone marrow to kick into high gear in response to leech-injected anti-coagulants, thus knocking conventional wisdom on its ear. The essential point I was trying to make, however, still remains even if (and, I repeat, *if* since net searches for "leech" and "anemia" in proximity having turned up nothing so far) I may have chosen a bad example. I'm all in favor of folks trying to be renaissance men in the finest tradition of Leonardo da Vinci, but sometimes a speaker's desire to be knowledgeable on all topics can turn very wearisome to the listeners when he's inclined to lecture at great length on topics where his enthusiasm has overshadowed his abilities. To also be fair, nowadays with Terry confining himself more to purely filesystem related issues rather than lengthy dissertations on the effects of QED on sparrow flight velocities in the southern hemisphere (complete with ASCII art diagrams of course) or the 4 Lost Chapters of the Kama Sutra (ASCII censored), this has been much less of a problem and I can probably put off buying that extra 4GB drive for the mail archives at least another month or two. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message