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From: rcj@burl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: SNARK error message
Message-ID: <346@burl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 14:37:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 14:37:37 1983
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A word of advice to netters all (don't want to pick on anyone in
particular):

When you think that you have found THE answer to a question/problem
on the net, ask at least a half-dozen of your cohorts before you post
said answer to the entire network.

The REAL origin of the SNARK (to the best of my wee knowledge, admittedly),
is the poem 'The Hunting of the Snark', written a long time before the
50's and before rockets by a man named Charles Dodgeson(sp?), otherwise
known as Lewis Carroll.  The Snark was a terrifying, practically invincible
monster-type thing, and therefore makes your error message make a lot
more sense -- it corresponds to a HORRIBLE bug.

'For the Snark was a boojum, you see.'
-- 

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