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Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-14.UNIX.SCO-prwarn.12-Nov-1994

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Strickland)
Tue Nov 29 00:57:40 1994

From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk>
To: Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 03:24:33 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: grue@engin.umich.edu, jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM, david@irc.umbc.edu,
        8lgm@bagpuss.demon.co.uk, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199411282001.PAA04101@uther.cs.purdue.edu> from "Gene Spafford" at Nov 28, 94 03:01:53 pm

> My key concern is that people on the net, and on these lists in
> particular, spout opinion as proven fact.  This perpetuates folklore,
> just as knocking on wood or avoiding black cats.  We have no general
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
An important question arises here.  I always thought a black cat was lucky -
not unlucky.  Which is it?  Maybe its different in this country - is it just
American black cats that are unlucky? :-)

PS: what about poor bastards who own black cats, what happens to them?
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