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Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Jan 19 11:48:46 2000

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[ On Sunday, January 16, 2000 at 14:03:52 (-0500), Steve Sobol wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
>
> It's not as proactive as ORBS. But there are a lot fewer false
> positives. I'd venture to say that the actual number is very
> close to zero. :)

ORBS cannot, by definition, have any "false positives".  Only a user of
ORBS could determine that in any case (eg. when manual entries have been
added for whatever reason).  This kind of slip-up in your thinking may
be another key to why so many people misunderstand it.

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