IUBio

It's primitive; it's dumb (FURTHER? not so far)

Larry Elmore ljelmore at montana.campuscw.net
Wed Jul 7 09:44:49 EST 1999


F. Frank LeFever <flefever at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:7luf9v$a8h at dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com...
>
> Conceivably, a group of monkeys banging on
> typewriters will eventually (re)produce the complete works of
> Shakespeare, but this charming hypothesis has so far not been been
> tested in actual practice.

I don't know about that. I think a good case could be made that such an
experiment is being run right now -- it's called Usenet, judging by many of
the posts to it. This newsgroup suffers less from it than many, though.

Larry





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