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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!manuel!csc.canberra.edu.au!news
- From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
- Subject: Re: Ling-ling
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.224253.15463@csc.canberra.edu.au>
- Sender: news@csc.canberra.edu.au
- Organization: University of Canberra
- References: <1992Sep9.231055.10246@csc.canberra.edu.au> <==tn=fc.jef@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 22:42:53 GMT
- Approved: got@a.bite
- Lines: 26
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- In article <==tn=fc.jef@netcom.com> Jef Poskanzer <jef@netcom.com> writes:
- >act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops):
- >}mcdowell@exlog.com (Steve McDowell) writes:
- >}>please....you're just kicking the comsat daemon? I'm not even gonna call
- >}>this one a hack!
- >}
- >}Pleeesee, we all should ignore such attempts at pseudo-hack initiates
- >
- >Whoo, you guys are hard. That one wasn't nearly as lame as most. I
- >mean, at least the guy tried, right? Anyway, the only reason kicking
- >comsat isn't a good hack is that there's not much point to it. Now,
- >when I used to hack on the Software Tools on VMS systems, we had a mail
- >system with something similar to comsat; except that instead of just
- >telling it "mail for joe" or "mail at offset 123 for joe", you could
- >tell it "mail from bigboote@yoyodyne.com for joe" or even "mail from
- >the twilight zone for confusing you" (and sent to joe). Now that was
- >fun.
- >---
- My problem was how to get acknowledgement without either saying this was a
- test or without posting an actual computer type hack. So I tried a mind hack
- and: VOILA - success.
- --
- Renrut Werdna Probable-Possible, my black hen,
- She lays eggs in the Relative When.
- She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
- act@ss.canberra.edu.au Because she's unable to postulate how
-