BS al a Erlacher - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Apr 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] 
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  ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Pat Finnegan" &lt;pat(a)purdueriots.com&gt; 

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   Dick, do you
actually have any interest in old machines or  
 are you just 
...
  If you'd read my earlier post, you'd know that
my interest 
 was in giving away
 the hardware I had available.  The reason was that, while I 
 still use some of
 the old boxes I have from back in the '70's, and while I 
 still use the ones
 that do something the newer ones don't, or simply do it more 
 conveniently, I 
Sounds fair to me, though, I go further, and preserve hardware
for the sake of "example," among other things.

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  don't have any interest in keeping non-functional
or 
 redundant hardware lying
 about. 
Just in case somebody complains about this response, I have to 
say that it sounds like a proper use of this list as far as I 
can tell.

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  number of replies instead that simply said,
"I'll take it 
 all, ship it to ..." 
...
  with no offer to participate, say, by paying for the
packing 
 and shipping. 
Normally if I were to tell somebody that, I'd be assuming that
I'd at least have to pay the shipping, but if I ever write to 
you about something like that, I'll try to be clear on it.

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  itself.  I wouldn't say I toy with 'em
however.  I hot-rod 
 the things from
 time to time, just to see what sort of speed could have come 
 from them, under
 circumstances that didn't then exist, but I certainly don't 
 pretend I see them
 as being in any sense better than what's out there today. 
Better is, however, very subjective. :)

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  their grammar,
 syntax, and orthography are clear evidence they've not even 
 read their own
 writing, I can't possibly take them seriously. 
A pet peeve of mine too; you can't get away from those people,
either.  Some of them are even great people, but their writing
is terrible.

One thing I've wondered for a while -- and don't take this as an
insult -- is, are you aware of the possible slang connotations in
your user-name?

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
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