This distinction is thus an old and quondam useful one. The dumbing down of this community is of course making it and other such distinctions less and less viable.
That conceded, there is little to be gained from embracing the new, exultantly ahistorical ignorance prematurely. Its time is anyway coming ineluctably; and the "et futuris" portion of the old prophecy is, at best, highly problematic. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
