on 11/1/01 3:19 PM, Zachery Bir at zbir_at_urbanape.com wrote:
> On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 03:02 , SlashDevNull wrote:
>
>> Ohh, a challenger.
>>
>> But we must all start off at idiot level first.
>>
>> (except for me, I go up a level for thinking of this)
>
> Are you drunk?
BTW, not that I'm drunk, but on a Unix system, it's /dev/null, so
SlashDevSlashNull, not SlashDevNull...
-Laurent.
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