At 15:22 02/03/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Many thanks for all your replies. I've printed them all off and will give
>them to the student who asked the original question. I'm relieved to be
>able to do this because the question came at the end of a heated
>discussion and when no one could answer the question, the questioner
>thumped her fist on the table and announced to the world in general that
>she "needed to know" the answer! I can now prove that I have consulted a
>distinguished body of experts from across the world on her behalf!
>
>Ian Wei
>University of Bristol
>
>Every sympathy, old chap; but why was it down to you to pick the
world's brains on behalf of this singularly bad-tempered student?
Why should she not have been told to go and read the bibliography
on the subject?
Oriens.
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