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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: Line eater bug
Message-ID: <1395@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 15:28:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1395
Posted: Thu Oct 18 15:28:34 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 12:45:47 EDT
References: <1376@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <196@bragvax.UUCP> <6083@mcvax.UUCP> <579@bunker.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <579@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
>I found it amusing that the following article about the line
>eater bug was itself a victim of the selfsame bug (the bug
>has a self-preservation instinct!):
>
>> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP
>> Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP
>> Path: bunker!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!mcvax!guido
>> From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
>> ...
>> 
>> thout me.  Has it ever occured to
>> anybody that this might be the case?
>> 
>> --
>> 	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
>> 	guido@mcvax.UUCP
>> 
>> "Immorality may be something, but it does not take the place of virtue
>> and three square meals a day."

Actually, I have to wonder to myself whether guido hasn't scored again.
Perhaps the sentence that got truncated originally read something like this:

>> Anybody who thinks this was really a truncated message has forgotten about
>> kremvax and has reckoned without me.  Has it ever occured [<--emacs user?]
>> to anybody that this might be the case?

Well, it certainly occurred to me.

Larry Wall, "Stamp In Ada" Committee, SDC, Santa Monica
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