On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:44:23PM -0600, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>  wrote:
>  >   With my thinking, no, we shouldn't have.  My point is that we should
>  > be doing *something*, even if our current level of technology limits
>  > us to near-useless actions.  The point is to get into the mindset of
>  > searching, and to make it "just a matter of course" when new
>  > (potentially enabling) technologies are developed.
> 
> Won't you be sorry when we finally do discover a signal and after
> analysing it, discover packets containing EBCDIC.

"Say, these packets are all less than the MTU, and they're all the
exact same size." 

"Hey, wait a minute! Those look like numbers at the right end of
every packet!"

These aren't packets, they're CARDS!
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724:
DO NOT EXPOSE MOUSE PAD TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME.