Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:53:50 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. Message-ID: <3186.888281630@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:03:47 %2B1030." <19980224110347.29951@freebie.lemis.com>
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> > 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
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