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From: Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Origins of the name of 4th edition file server
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:33:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E28303D.9000100@nas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030117094130.ENSK15912.mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz@[210.54.71.15]>

Andrew Simmons wrote:
> A good idea in principle, but isn't it needlessly restrictive to consider
> only names of towns in the USA? Surely the village of Wank in Germany
> deserves to have a software tool named after it?

Surely it would need the option to wank recursively.

-Jack



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-17 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-17  9:39 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-17 16:33 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2003-01-17 16:11   ` Conor Williams
2003-01-17 19:14   ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2003-01-24  7:24     ` Tomas
2003-01-24 16:47       ` Russ Cox
2003-01-24 20:38         ` Tomas
2003-01-24 20:47           ` andrey mirtchovski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-18  6:04 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-15  8:12 Skip Tavakkolian

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