Re: [9fans] scripting sam

["Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>]

From: James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
To: <boyd@planete.net>
Cc: <9fans@cs.psu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] scripting sam


> God, you really love it don't you? Sure, let's spam the list
> so they can all see what a foolish little man you are.

spam?  that's unsolicited mail to (usually) market something.

i'm not sure that 'foolish' is the adjective.  rob said it
best, i think, as 'doing a boyd'.

> Plenty of other people seemed to be able to have a much
> nicer way of telling him that no, stream editing ala sed
> wasn't possible, but yes he could batch it like so. What
> made it so hard for you to either A) not respond or B) if
> you went through the effort respond with some politness?

à la sed...  use english; gratuitous use of french is
pretentious.  at least get the accents right.

politeness?  read the 1st ammendment.

take a stroll down university and have a bit of a think.

plan 9 has been around for nearly 10 years.  all this
'why can't i have my favourite toy on it?' mail is a
bit much.

name me one other system where you can write telnet
with echo and cat.