From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why should I invest[tigate] plan9?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:12:04 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FA86E6AC-C6E7-4C2C-8FF7-7FFDE0400C85@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130128142437.GA56383@intma.in>
I thought it was an MVS reincarnation…
On Jan 28, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:13:28AM +0000, Unknown wrote:
>> My route here was: when my ISP said I'd have to buy W95, because Win3
>> wasn't good enough any more, I said screw-you and found linux and ETHO
>> [the single fd0, full OS & inet suite].
>
> Let me start out by saying I love this message. I thought fakeposting
> had died, but clearly there are still some practitioners out there.
> Here are a few hints:
>
> - Nobody's ISP tells them what OS to run, even back in 1995. This
> excessive detail deprives your message of the credibility it deserves.
>
> - dog@gmail.com is not valid -- gmail requires at least six characters
> in the username field; you had to know someone would notice this. Next
> time, register a better throwaway address. Mailinator has lots of
> legit-sounding domains to choose from.
>
> - The message seems to have shot its whole magazine in the first
> engagement. Spread it out over a few more messages, so people get
> engaged in the discussion before they realize it's a fakepost.
>
> Don't get discouraged! This is good work, and with practice, you'll be
> tearing up mailing lists for years to come.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurt
>
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Federico G. Benavento
benavento@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-28 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-28 10:13 Unknown
2013-01-28 14:24 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-01-28 14:45 ` dexen deVries
2013-01-28 15:12 ` Federico G. Benavento [this message]
2013-01-28 20:55 ` Bruce Ellis
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