Conference rusure::math

922.0. ""Survey (about good/bad numbers)"" by LISP::DERAMO (Daniel V. {AITG,LISP,ZFC}:: D'Eramo) Sun Aug 28 1988 09:04

     Someone is taking a survey of "good/bad numbers".  The
     author wants replies mailed to him, not posted to USENET.
     Does anyone know how to do that from within Digital?
     
     Dan
     
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Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,talk.philosophy.misc,sci.math,alt.slack
Path: decwrl!labrea!teknowledge-vaxc!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!imagine!pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu!kibo
Subject: Survey (about good/bad numbers)
Posted: 27 Aug 88 03:08:07 GMT
Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY
Xref: decwrl talk.religion.misc:10762 talk.philosophy.misc:1948 sci.math:4704
Posted: Fri Aug 26 20:08:07 1988
 
[line-eater's-line]
 
 This is a little survey that I'd like your help with.
 
 There are many superstitions or religious beliefs about certain numbers
 being 'good', 'lucky', or 'nice', and other numbers being 'evil' or
 'unlucky'.  I would greatly appreciate it if you would take a minute
 to participate im my study ehre and tell me what you think of these
 numbers.
 
 Please assign each number a rating from 1 through 10, where a score
 of '1' indicates "The best, nicest, or luckiest number possible" and
 10 is "The most evil or unlucky number possible".  (Reply by mail, please.)
 
 Results will be posted after I think I've gotten most of the votes
 I'm going to get.
 
 The numbers:
 
 0       1        2        3        4         5         6
 
 7       8        9        10       13        17        42
 
 66      69       99       100      123       666       999
 
 1984    1988     2001     6666     -1        infinity  .5
 
 Thank you for your cooperation.
 
 Mail replies to                     [email protected]
                                     userfe0n%[email protected]
                                     [email protected]
 
 Disclaimer: anything I say here is my own opinion.
 
 [line-eater's-food]

    Re .0:
    
    To respond, take the path from their message:
    
    	Path: decwrl!labrea!teknowledge-vaxc!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!
    	itsgw!imagine!pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu!kibo
    
    Then get into mail and type SEND.  When prompted, type:
    
    	DECWRL::"labrea!teknowledge-vaxc!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!
    	itsgw!imagine!pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu!kibo"
    
    Type it all as one line, not the two I have here.  And it is better to
    type it when prompted rather than straight from DCL, to avoid problems
    with case and quotes.
    
    There is almost certainly a shorter path, but the easiest thing to do
    is just send it back the way it came.
    
    
    				-- edp 

    Also, the message says that replies can be sent to
    
    	[email protected]
    
    To send to that address (or any other domain-style address), you
    can simply use
    
    	DECWRL::"[email protected]"
    
    	- Win