OT: jargon (Was Re: Re: [plug] Passwords)

Peter J. Nicol peternicol at vrl.com.au
Sun Mar 10 02:47:32 WST 2002


On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 00:10, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:55:56PM +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> > YMMV?
> 
> Your Mileage May Vary.  See
> 
>   http://tuxedo.org/jargon/

The problem with the "Jargon File" is that esr took an already available
online, historical resource, and instead of just updating it, and adding
new entries (which he has done pretty well), he also added his own
prejudices, in a blatant and shameless fashion.

I think he is a twit, but hey, ymmv.

This entry is unforgivable:

http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/W2K-bug.html



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