Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/01/2011 08:09 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 04:17 AM, Lisi wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > > On 2011-04-01, Freeman<hewho7@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > > > > Hello List,
> > > > >
> > > > > right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury
> > > > > Distribution.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess it is a joke.
> > > >
> > > > 04/01/11 !
> > >
> > > What does the 4th of January have to do with it??!!!!
> >
> > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has
> > here.  Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing of
> > any writer who uses an ambiguous form for the date.  In this case the context
> > made guessing easy, but that is rarely the case.
>
> Didn't you hear?  9/11/01 changed /everything/!

Now *that* was funny.

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