[plug] Mr Busby is off to /dev/null

[Bret Busby]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Mike Holland wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:23:22 +0800
> From: Mike Holland <myk at plug.linux.org.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Mr Busby is off to /dev/null
> 
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
> 
> > thus your mails are off to /dev/null at my end..
> > You have the honour of being the first person on
> > the PLUG list to gain such a ranking.
> 
> Welcome to the club, Kimberly. Your membership kit is in the post.
> 
> In case of emergency, break glass on the following too:
> 
> #  :0
> #  * ^In-Reply-To:.*.busby.net
> #  /dev/null
> 
> 
> 

Well, that shows pretty crappy coding.

That is like using *.iinet.net.au, or some similar wildcard, for 
directing stuff to /dev/null.

But then, if someone is stupid enough to use wildcards in directing 
things to /dev/nulll,  I suppose that is their problem.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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