I am personally fascinated by this discussion thread.  However,
I know HP3000 developers who could benefit from this list that might
be dissuaded from it because of 'sensitive' off-topic threads.  And
religious discussions can be 'sensitive'-especially here in the
Midwest.

Rick Brooks             [log in to unmask]
Software Engineer       Prevue Networks www.prevue.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   Kevin L. Newman [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, September 03, 1997 8:28 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re[2]: Off-Topic

>The huge success of the scientific method (and the existence of this
e-mail
>list, with all the technology behind it, is a good example) is
dependent on
>the experimental method and the tenet that there is no such thing as
a
>miracle (i.e. any anomalous result can and must be explained in
scientific
>terms).

No such thing as a miracle?  I think that we saw a couple of them at
HPWorld
this year!

Kevin Newman