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From: donn@utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: Line eater bug
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 03:37:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 03:37:44 1984
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Guido van Rossum's message was broken, but I doubt it was because of
the line eater bug.  He forgot a primary rule of the net, one that is
probably in the 'Introduction to Usenet' document but really ought to
be printed by 'postnews' before it lets you make a fool of yourself:
Never, EVER, attempt to be subtle on Usenet.

Mark Twain's 'The Stolen White Elephant' is the standard introductory
document for C news,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    decvax!utah-cs!donn