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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Working e-mail for Henry Spencer?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:54:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127225438.GA14006@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1601280529170.72068@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 05:41:23AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Nemo wrote:
> 
> > There is a Henry Spencer <henry at spsystems.net>, who about a year ago or 
> > so posted to the IETF TLS list and posted to comp.compilers a decade 
> > ago.  When I saw the name, I wondered if it was Henry at zoo but I did not 
> > enquire.  I never met Henry, despite walking past Zoo almost daily when 
> > I was a grad student.  As such, any email from an unknown like me may be 
> > discarded.
> 
> Sounds like Henry Utzoo; many yonks ago, I actually met him at a private 
> party (you had to quote one of his signatures from sci.space etc).
> 
> Long story.
> 
> I think my pass-phrase was "SUN-ish: requiring 32-bit bug numbers" or 
> something.

That's the truth, I was there and can assure you that 16 bits were not enough :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 23:18 Warren Toomey
2016-01-27 16:05 ` Nemo
2016-01-27 16:56   ` arnold
2016-01-27 18:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-01-27 18:52     ` John Cowan
2016-01-27 22:54     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-02-02 23:57 Norman Wilson
2016-02-03 22:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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