Re: ssh tunneling
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits,
> > > to help slow vira propagation:
> >
> > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ...
> >
> > [ SNIP explanation of latin plurals ]
> >
> > This concludes today's pedantry.]
>
> I enjoy my daily dose of pedantry.
>
> However, the way I was taught it was that `virus' was already a plural
> /did not have a plural in latin.
As I said:
> > Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural of
> > "virus", because its meaning back then was abstract and not
> > something you could really pluralize.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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