Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!world!bzs
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: More secret messages
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.044711.2132@world.std.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 04:47:11 GMT
References: <1191@husc6.harvard.edu> <3543@hub.UUCP> <1220@husc6.harvard.edu> <5866@orca.wv.tek.com> <191@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Lines: 8
In-Reply-To: jackson@jabberwock.shs.ohio-state.edu's message of 15 Jan 90 20:57:43 GMT


Perhaps someone mentioned this but various magic numbers in BSD Unix
(and perhaps other flavors) are encodings of people's birthdays.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade         | bzs@world.std.com
1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs