From:	Hairy Smurf <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject:	Re: electronic copies of a thesis
Date:	Mon, 20 May 1996 01:04:57 -0400 (EDT)

At 22:30 5/19/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
> The Grimmy says that for a thesis to be valid it must exist
>physically. It cannot be just stored electronically. It also says that
>a thesis provides a ritual link to the magician.
> So here's the question;
> Suppose that a resourceful decker is hanging out in the matrix
>waiting on a real dumb mage who's used a word processor to write his
>thesis. The decker boosts a copy of the final version before the mage can
>delete it, or uses disk utilities to undelete it. If the decker prints
>out this final version so that it exists physically will another ritual
>link to the author be created.
>
>
>I'm curious as to what other people think.
>
>regards
>Bill
>
>
I was always on the opinion that the thesis had to be hand written. That
would create a link between the pages and the mage. Printing it out does
\n't seem like it would act as a link. IMHO

Sasquatch

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