Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.news,net.bugs Subject: Re: clever ruse Message-ID: <513@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 15:21:51 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.513 Posted: Sun Dec 9 15:21:51 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:19:21 EST References: <6493@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.news:2746 net.bugs:487 > Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the > annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does. > Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null! That reminds me of the time when we had two system managers here. One got annoyed about the other's long messages of the day. He fixed it by making /etc/motd a link to /dev/null. Ever try to edit /dev/null? -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls