On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
At 09:53 AM 12/11/01 +1100, mattd wrote:
Tim said its an openly elitist list once.
Yes, so is an university. A meritocracy is necessarily discriminatory.
Deal with it.
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