At 6:41 PM 11/21/94 +0100, Andrew Spring wrote:
Laurie Flynn writes today twofer on MS Network and newbie 1/3 pres Robert Herbold.
For combo send blank message with subject: NET_puf
Could I have a little bit of known plaintext for this cipher?
I feel like Deke Slayton talking for Gus Grissom in _The _Right_Stuff_. What John's sayin' here is that there's a two article section in the New York Times about 1) MS Network(tm) and 2) MS's new VP for Global Network Assimilation, freshly filched by Microsoft from Proctor and Gamble a few weeks ago. What John's sayin' here is that he's got a mailbot which'll send you a copy of both articles if you send him mail with "NET_puf" in the subject line. Since there's a "bot on the other end of the message, anything in the message doesn't really matter. What John's sayin' here is that he's not posting the whole thing to the list in the interest of bandwidth, and, to prove his heart's in the right place, he'll keep his pointer to the article as terse as possible. What John's *not* sayin' here is how much a lot of us appreciate his access to these articles, cryptic pointers and all. By the way, I agree with Tim <suprize!>. MicroBorg's nominalistic imperialism of the english language is starting to gag me. MS Word(tm), MS Windows(tm), MS Network(tm), indeed. There oughta be a law..... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) "There is no difference between someone Shipwright Development Corporation who eats too little and sees Heaven and 44 Farquhar Street someone who drinks too much and sees Boston, MA 02331 USA snakes." -- Bertrand Russell (617) 323-7923