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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Len Rose sentenced to Prison Term
Keywords: spam Hacker spam Prison spam AT&T spam wire-fraud?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.213330.14704@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 21:33:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.182102.9221@netcom.COM> <1991Jun17.232007.15146@Firewall.Nielsen.Com> <1991Jun19.131457.21494@ima.isc.com>
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In article <1991Jun19.131457.21494@ima.isc.com> peterf@ima.isc.com (Peter Fischman) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun17.171009.25930@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>>>
>>>	Why a year and a day?  What is the motive behind this?  Why not just
>>>a year?  So now they can say, "We put him in just, not just for a year, but
>>>MORE than a year?"
>>
>Actually, a year and a day comes from the time when the year was 13 months
>of 28 days, and the 365th day was kind of new years day.  So to send someone
>away for 365 days, the sentence had to be for a year and a day.
>Any way, that's what Robert Graves says.
>
  Note for the peanut gallery: That was obviously an obscure joke.


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