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New quotes for Fri Mar 30
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 30 01:41:07 1990
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 01:40:48 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
Path: bloom-beacon!mintaka!yale!cs.utexas.edu!ssbn!looking!watmath!maytag!watserv1!looking!funny-request
From: wht@n4hgf.gatech.edu (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: How UUCP Addresses Came Into Being
Keywords: usenet, national stereotypes
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Date: 12 Mar 90 00:30:24 GMT
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This came to me as I was explaining domain vs. uucp addresses to
a friend:
Bang paths are more ancient than the Internet. As a matter of
fact, bang paths were often seen as early as 4500 years ago back
in ancient China when too much gunpowder got put into the
fireworks. When such pyrotechnics went off, you would hear
things like "Choi! Lo! Ying-Chow! Run!". Over the years, this
type of addressing became contracted to "Choi!Lo!Ying-Chow!Run!".
When UNIX began its life, either the developers were lazy or the
ASR-33 teletypes they were using mandated the use of primarily
one case (your guess is as good as mine). Anyway, early versions
of UNIX had pyrotechnics of their own. Rumor has it the first
PDP-11 to run Version 0.1 just took off and flew across the room,
smoking and flaming. Hence, one bright Bell Labs engineer, who
just happened to be a student of Ancient Chinese History (less
esoteric than many areas of UNIX study) came up with the idea to
use Bang Addressing. Hence the now familiar form:
choi!lo!ying-chow!run!username
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glassw (William B Glass):
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
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henry (Henry Mensch):
"You have to know who Cincinnati is to understand why we're
throwing such a fit. We don't selectively enforce murder laws so we
can't selectively enforce pornography laws. Whether it's in a porno
store or an art gallery, we have a right to speak up."
-- Monty Lobb, president of Citizens for Community Values.
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Planned absences:
3- 5 April: Trusted Systems Interoperability Group; Marlboro, MA
9 April: North Carolina State University
3- 4 May: Strategies for Success Educational Software Expo;
UCSC; Santa Cruz, CA
14-16 May: OSF Member Meeting; Cambridge, MA
11-15 June: Usenix; Anaheim, CA
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Plans for this month:
* organising the PANSS tape (and thinking about off-site support)
* finding and retaining a man who can pass the "breakfast" test
* workable solutions for qa problems with respect to courseware
and other materials developed by non-athena personnel
* shoveling out my apartment
* considering moving the rest of my furniture (and books,
and tapes, etc.) back into my apartment.
* release 7.0
! treatment of athena network services as layers upon vendor os.
legend: * = "in progress"
+ = "in 'bureaucratic-wait' state"
! = "a future problem," in proposal stage
D = "done"
--
>off-campus readers will want to know that you'll find me here usually
>... when i'm not travelling to somewhere exotic, i'm a member of MIT's
>Project Athena Systems & Operations and External Relations Groups,
>where i handle a potpourri of systems development related tasks,
>including quality assurance, software export issues, etc. ... other
>details: i'm an alumnus of syracuse university and purdue university
> ... i like to travel often, and hate answering the phone.
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Idiot, n.:
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree
But only if the NFL
To a fat franchise would agree.
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stcheng (Stephen T Cheng):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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