Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: twits on the net (was: Re: Cancellation and Suspicion Message-ID: <9567@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 9 Jan 90 13:56:00 GMT References: <9536@hoptoad.uucp> <15416@well.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 33 In the referenced message, tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) wrote: >Not that Poskanzer's "myass" would even have >fooled a twit; lacking a period, it doesn't even look right to a >casual glance. In article <15416@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: >It apparently fooled you. You really are the most dreadful liar, Dopey. I changed the Newsgroups line back to news.groups before sending the message, despite your typically dishonest claims to the contrary. >}And by the way, Dopey, getting mail from daemon when a message can't be >}sent is not a general characteristic of all systems. It doesn't happen >}here; I know because I sometimes answer crossposted messages and fail >}to notice that one of the groups is not present here. > >Again with the bragging about your stupidity. Twice! Listen, sub-twit, >what I meant by getting mail from daemon is all the automated test >reflectors out there. That's the whole fucking point of getting someone >to post to misc.test! Apparently you DIDN'T NOTICE YOUR MAILBOX GETTING >FLOODED EVERY TWO OR THREE MONTHS. I guess it was just one more mysterious >thing about Unix that you gave up hope of ever understanding. No, Dopey, you idiot. I have never, not once, gotten a single message from daemon in the very rare instances where I have not caught this trick. Not daemon here, not daemon there, not daemon anywhere. Jesus Christ, get a clue. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box Religion is the smile on a dog" -- Edie Brickell, "What I Am"