From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18883 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wes Hardaker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Purdy boundary Date: 18 Nov 1998 10:16:31 -0800 Organization: U.C.Davis, Information Technology - D.C.A.S. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157331 8598 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:42:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13309 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:18:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB21411; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:18:11 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:17:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07544 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:17:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from des.castles.com (hardaker@des.castles.com [208.214.166.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13278 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:16:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from hardaker@localhost) by des.castles.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA30479; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:16:31 -0800 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen X-Face: #qW^}a%m*T^{A:Cp}$R\"38+d}41-Z}uU8,r%F#c#s:~Nzp0G9](s?,K49KJ]s"*7gvRgA SrAvQc4@/}L7Qc=w{)]ACO\R{LF@S{pXfojjjGg6c;q6{~C}CxC^^&~(F]`1W)%9j/iS/ IM",B1M.?{w8ckLTYD'`|kTr\i\cgY)P4 X-url: http://dcas.ucdavis.edu/~hardaker In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "18 Nov 1998 03:52:49 +0100" Original-Lines: 51 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070048 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.48) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18883 >>>>> On 18 Nov 1998 03:52:49 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> But is this the prettiest possible boundary? The two hypens at Lars> the beginning are outside our control, but the rest we can do Lars> what we want with. It has to be less than 70 characters long, Lars> though. How about: --Gnus-is-awesome-and-you-should-use-it-for-everything Then the second part could be: --Gnus-is-not-evil-Gnus-is-not-evil-Gnus-is-not-evil Then the third part could be: --Send-Lars-Lots-of-Money-Send-Lars-Lots-of-Money Then, when you run out of installed expressions in your gnus-subliminal-messages-list: --`fortune -s | head -1 | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/-/g;s/-+$//;'` Which gives you all sorts of things: --Long-computations-which-yield-zero-are-probably-all-for-naught --Q--What-do-you-get-when-you-cross-the-Godfather-with-an-attorney --When-I-was-little--I-went-into-a-pet-shop-and-they-asked-how-big-I-d-get --The-only-really-decent-thing-to-do-behind-a-person-s-back-is-pat-it --The-average-income-of-the-modern-teenager-is-about-2-a-m --I-am-a-bookaholic---If-you-are-a-decent-person--you-will-not-sell-me --The-difference-between-genius-and-stupidity-is-that-genius-has-its-limits --How-come-wrong-numbers-are-never-busy --the-HIGHWAY-is-made-out-of-LIME-JELLO-and-my-HONDA-is-a-barbequeued --Help-stamp-out-and-abolish-redundancy-and-repetition --To-err-is-human --NEWARK-has-been-REZONED----DES-MOINES-has-been-REZONED --There-are-certain-things-men-must-do-to-remain-men --The-light-of-a-hundred-stars-does-not-equal-the-light-of-the-moon --Fools-ignore-complexity---Pragmatists-suffer-it --The-only-winner-in-the-War-of-1812-was-Tchaikovsky --Power--like-a-desolating-pestilence --Somehow-I-reached-excess-without-ever-noticing-when-I-was-passing-through --If-it-smells-it-s-chemistry--if-it-crawls-it-s-biology--if-it-doesn-t-work --The-first-thing-we-do--let-s-kill-all-the-lawyers Hmm, you know, this started as a joke, but I really like it now... -- "Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."