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Re: Steve Jackson
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:28:12 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.nomorespamCOM
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Kevin Loch wrote:
> Hey Steve, there's an article about your infamous incident on slashdot
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/01/0933228&mode=thread&threshold=-1
Yah, Steve took note of this in the Daily Illuminator:
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/
...which points to a very good summary of the events:
http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
heh, the dir name "SS" is historically significant. I've read through
summaries of this event several times, but this is the first time I noticed
that the SS officer in charge took SJ Games down because of a three-line
summary of how the Kermit protocol works -- in 1990, years after Kermit was
largely obsolete!
It just goes to show: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by sheer stupidity.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society
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| Wow. I've spent a good part of today (and will probably spend a parge part of the evening) reading Bruce Sterling's online book ((URL) - there's a lot more than "we in the public" ever [didn't] hear. Steve, may we believe that Bruce's account jives (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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