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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:59:08 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151223015908.GH14449@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151223011154.GA9303@mercury.ccil.org>

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 20:11:54 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit:
>
>> Can we get ken to post the information here?  Then we would have a
>> reference for the change.
>
> Internet-only source and a primary source at that.  There's nothing
> you can do at this point.

There are plenty of other examples of sources from the web.  I suspect
that if Doug had revealed his identity in the commit, it might not
have been backed out.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-23  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-23  0:27 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-23  0:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  1:11   ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  1:59     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2015-12-23  2:01       ` David Ryskalczyk
2015-12-23  2:14         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  2:32           ` jason-tuhs
2015-12-23  2:44             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:59             ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  4:05               ` Random832
2015-12-23  4:27                 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23  0:46 ` Warren Toomey
2015-12-23  6:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-23  1:44 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23  2:07 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:19   ` Milo Velimirovic
2015-12-23  2:27     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-23  2:36       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23  4:53 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-23 13:45   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-23 13:30 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 13:36 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 13:53 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:01   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-24 15:17     ` John Cowan
2015-12-24 23:05       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  0:52         ` scj
2015-12-25  1:05           ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-25  2:07             ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-25  2:28               ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-25 16:21           ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-23 16:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 23:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-12-23 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-23 18:58 ` John Cowan
     [not found] <mailman.20.1450886678.3292.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-23 17:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-12-23 17:19 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 19:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 19:41 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
     [not found] <mailman.1.1451005554.3365.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-12-25 18:41 ` David
2015-12-25 20:46   ` Marc Rochkind
2015-12-25 22:22   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-02 19:56     ` Marc Rochkind
2016-01-02 21:06       ` Clem Cole
2016-01-02 22:22       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-03  1:26         ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 10:30           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:32             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-03 18:00               ` John Cowan
2016-01-03 12:10           ` Jacob Goense
2016-01-03 15:22             ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-13 19:48               ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-01-13 20:02                 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-01-04  2:26           ` Kurt H Maier
2016-01-02 23:14 Norman Wilson
2016-01-02 23:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-01-03 14:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-13 20:31 Noel Chiappa

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