Re: survival skills for teenage geeks
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:48:31 -0600
"Nathan E Norman" <nnorman@incanus.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Miernik wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:25:38AM +1300, criggie wrote:
> > > > And while I'm complaining, I have the goddamn Mail-Followup-To:
> > > > header set, please stop sending me carbon-copies of list posts!
> > >
> > > Personally I'd rather receive a message twice than possibly miss
> > > it completely.
> >
> > Going this way, why not just set up the mailing list server to send
> > each message twice to everyone, just in case the first copy does not
> > get there? :)
>
> Why stop at two? Pick a random number from 2 to 2^31
> (My sig is less annoying than ypurs :-)
And your sig is 10x the length of your message...
> --
> Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
>
> Ozymandias
>
> I met a traveler from an antique land
> Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
> Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
> Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
> And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
> Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
> Which yet survive (stamped on these lifeless things),
> The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
> And on the pedestal these words appear:
> 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
> Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
> Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
> Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
> The lone and level sands stretch far away."
>
> -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
>
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