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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI & Our Retaliation
Message-ID: <159ld6INNmmu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:02:30 GMT
References: <83@ampr.ab.ca> <9207231306.AA06854@GRANNY.CS.NYU.EDU> <4442@hq.hq.af.mil>
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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To excerpt from an earlier article...
>if their conception of this is pimply teen-agers looking roughly like
>Matthew Broderick in War Games running to their friends' houses with a
>black jacketed 5 1/4" floppy.)

Now if we want to convince them that we are REALLY like the above
description, take the following advice.

In article <4442@hq.hq.af.mil> john@hq.af.mil writes:
>5) while :
>   do
>	ls /usr/spool/news/junk >/tmp/foo
>	for i in `cat /tmp/foo`
>	do
>		mail postmaster@att.com </usr/spool/news/junk/$i
>	done
>	sleep 600
>   done
>
Hmmm, noting the site name of the above poster, maybe there really is
a connection with War Games. ;-)
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