From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: v8 /etc/motd
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 13:00:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exY+g25PsoVVNNTsjbnMeUoXSbJdesYEqpFmCDmCe=H9KVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <em4516cc09-8503-46dc-9f11-4fc6e6d602e7@535d7045.com>
"you might have mail" -- nice.
Kind of like the Plan 9
"Press almost any key to reboot..."
This was from the late Jim McKie, who realized that the PC keyboard
had a few keys that would not count as a keypress.
jmk once claimed to me, with a smile on his face, that Ken said the
message was pedantic :-)
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 12:44 PM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> My favorite MOTD is:
>
> You might have mail.
>
> I told one of my student operators that if he put that in there before
> the morning was out, someone would be in my office to tell me they got
> the message but they didn’t have any mail.
> I wasn’t expecting it to be one of my senior programmers. Well, it
> only said you MIGHT have mail.
>
> Somewhere there was a post circulating around with humorous MOTDs.
> That was on it, I believe.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-08 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-08 19:25 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-08-08 19:44 ` [TUHS] " Ron Natalie
2023-08-08 20:00 ` ron minnich [this message]
2023-08-09 22:43 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2023-08-09 14:27 ` Norman Wilson
2023-08-10 1:03 ` Bakul Shah
2023-08-10 8:16 Steve Simon
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