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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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Subject: Re: clever ruse
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 15:21:51 EST
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> 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
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