Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!jef
From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Communication / mystery UNIX file / administrivia
Message-ID: <22248@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 19 Dec 90 19:21:41 GMT
References: <51996@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <52375@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Followup-To: mail only, please
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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Approved: goetz@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU

In the references messages, goetz@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Phil Goetz) wrote:
}It helps if you tell us what computer and what
}operating system you're referring to.

}I have used System V UNIX hardly at all; it is
}narrowminded of you to assume that anyone
}worthy of the name "hacker" uses System V.

}The .Z suffix indicates that it is a compressed file.
}But 'uncompress' in UMACS 4.3 (BSD) does nothing to it.

This kind of junk makes me very seriously consider adding
/Approved: nobody@rutgers.rutgers.edu/h:j to my kill file.
Plus a recommendation in the monthly posting that others do
the same.  I have asked the postmasters at Rutgers what the
deal is with their auto-approving mail gateway.  Twice, in
fact.  No response.  Well, if they won't listen to me I don't
have to listen to them.

Comments by email only, please.
---
Jef

  Jef Poskanzer  jef@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef
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