From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <028501c05413$3552bb20$0ab9c6d4@cybercable.fr> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20001121193744.53C18199F7@mail.cse.psu.edu> <00de01c05412$4832b0c0$97036887@cs.belllabs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] mime MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:31:43 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2ed2a1b8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: rob pike > > Brian Ried is the source of the brain damage. Maybe it's > Brian damage. He insisted on making the DEC gateways > clear the 8th bit in a stupefying bid to make everyone > honest. i could believe he would do that but back while paul vixie was with digital (till '93 or so) KJS didn't clear the 8th bit on input. then again, you could be talking about an earlier or later time and over the past few years i've seen him lose his mind. there is one story that says he'd smear fertiliser on his hands before flying to trigger nitrate sniffers. i could have asked the question on a list he's on but i got myself kicked off it 'cos i wouldn't apologise for a flame i sent -- as if no flames were ever sent to this list.