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  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
Well Shiri i discoverd that switching to an altered e-mail addie every 3 months for a year tends to reduce spam-don't ask why but it works ravi (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: What makes an acronym (was: Re: quick question)
 
Which reminds me of one of my fave acronyms... for an editor somewhat like the world's best editor. MINCE = MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs (...) As for what I keep in *my* wallet? (this *is* .geek, after all)... a vi reference card. vi is the devil's (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
The way I heard it was: "It is said that an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards will eventually produce great works of literature. But now that we have the internet, we know that is not the case." (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: MSIE & AOL/WebTV/SunOS
 
(...) Yeah, they had it at my old work.. I heard that it staggered like a lame dog that had just licked up one broken bottles worth of whisky, and had currently forgotten that it had only three legs. I never tried it though, I was happy with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
Sometimes I wonder about those monkeys on the typewriters (1), and how similar that is to spamming. One of the stories relating to that theory, is that if you put those said 6 monkeys on typewriters, they'll write every book in the Great Library... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)


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