X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1066" "Sat" "28" "November" "1998" "18:08:13" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "27" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "What is \"base\" LaTeX" nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22762; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.88A523F3@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:15 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411433 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:09 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA27497 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.36] (sl16.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.36]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11626 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:06 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13919.57916.952197.754236@fell.open.ac.uk>; from Chris Rowley on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 01:03:27PM +0100 <199811262254.IAA20689@bigted.maths.uq.edu.au>, <13918.39374.95531.209114@srahtz> <13919.57916.952197.754236@fell.open.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <19981128155929.B7318@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 18:08:13 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2985 At 15:59 +0000 1998/11/28, Timothy Murphy wrote: >A colleague told me that the term "printist" >(by analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc) >has been coined to describe people (including me) >with this misguided view. > >Printists are evil people who cut down rain forests >and clog up waste-disposal units. >Hopefully the EU will soon promulgate directives >to cut out this kind of thing. I gather printing all the EU directives on this will caused a whole rain forest to be cut down, filling an uncountable number of waste disposal units, and the landfill will provide London with a new suburb. On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 01:03:27PM +0100, Chris Rowley wrote: > Would you be happy to have to do all your Java course on-line, without > a decent printer available? This is of the kind of temporary material I would myself try to avoid printing out. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: