[118289] in Cypherpunks
NCSC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Fri Sep 24 06:52:46 1999
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:01:13 -0700
To: Matt Elliott <melliott@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 10:07 AM -0700 1999-09-23, Matt Elliott wrote:
>At 6:08 PM +0200 9/23/99, Anonymous wrote:
>>At 03:33 PM 9/23/99 +1000, Stephen Shott wrote:
>>>Forgive my ignorance, but what is the NCSC?
>>
>>Why don't you try a search engine, dickhead?
>>
>
>Well it could be the National Council of Senior Citizens, National Center
>for State Courts, North Central Superpave Center, North Carolina
>Supercomputing Center, North Carolina Solar Center, Northern California
>Safety Consortium, etc...
>
>So how is a search engine supposed to help?
>
Because context matters.
Anyone unable to figure out that of the various "NCSC" hits returned the
relevant one is the National Computer Security Center is just damned dumb
to be on this list.
Perhaps you are too.
--Tim May
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