Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: The Camel book Message-ID: <123266@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 18 Feb 91 23:39:12 GMT References: <1991Feb18.224040.27554@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <1991Feb18.225952.7490@iwarp.intel.com> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 15 merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >5000 copies were printed on the first run. 4700(!) had to be recalled >because the package had been shrinkwrapped before the cover ink had >time to dry and was starting to smear... Typical American waste. It probably never occurred to those pinheads that they might be collector's items some day. And that wizards don't care what the cover looks like. I've dribbled coffee on mine already. They should have sold them with an option to return them for "good copies" at a later date. I hope they donate them to universities rather than pitch them, but I doubt it. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane