From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 20:53:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151223045341.GC1873@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151223014407.07322440AE@lignose.oclsc.org>
As a guy who has donated money to Wikipedia this whole thread makes
me not want to donate again. Just me being grumpy.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:44:07PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Perhaps Wikipedia would be satisfied if we could get
> Ken to write a letter to some current published journal,
> saying that he's the one who named cron, he's heard
> people are interested in how it got that name, here's
> how. We could then cite that as a reference.
>
> On the other hand, this may be an example of the
> degree to which one should trust Wikipedia. The
> `command run on notice' acronym claim is backed up
> by an article from the AUUG (Hi Warren!) Proceedings,
> 1994, in which the first reference to cron gives
> that explanation with no further reference.
>
> If that's the quality of reference they accept, there
> is simply no reason to take anything they publish
> as gospel. Sorry.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
> Proud that no one has yet made a spurious Wikipedia
> page asserting the etymology of my personal domain
> name.
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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 [this message]
2015-12-23 13:45 ` Clem Cole
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2016-01-13 20:31 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-03 14:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-01-02 23:14 Norman Wilson
2016-01-02 23:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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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
2015-12-23 17:19 Norman Wilson
2015-12-23 19:04 ` John Cowan
2015-12-23 19:41 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
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2015-12-23 17:09 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-12-23 14:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-12-23 18:58 ` John Cowan
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 13:30 Norman Wilson
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
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
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