From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:52:10 PST
To: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Subject: Re: Randomness of a bit string
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Mike McNally writes:

> Jim Thompson writes:
>  > its a joke, you didn't get it, or Ray's bought into 
>  > the biggest joke of 2 years hence.
> 
> No, it was a joke, and I'm just ignorant.  Duhh.  Thanks to everybody
> who sent mail and didn't call me an idiot.

No, we wouldn't call you or anyone else an idiot for not having seen
this compression farce a couple of years ago, not when we're just
recovering from The Snake that Cannot Be Named.

The WEB thing was really a hoot. Do what Ray suggests and read the FAQ
in the compression group. (You know, there needs to be a "High Tech
Urban Legends" book....I can see someone asking: "I heard there was
this great compression algorithm, but the disk drive makers bought up
the rights to it to keep it off the market...")

--Tim May


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