From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 20: 8: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1FF15D90 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990402040902.DMPU5611744.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:09:02 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:07:43 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: User Friendly has been shut down Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <19990402043827.A43002@titus.stade.co.uk> References: <19990402013507.CTMM5611744.mta2-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:33:43PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990402040902.DMPU5611744.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2 Apr 99, at 4:38, Adrian Wontroba wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:33:43PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > But it is humourous! Look at all the msgs that flew around! Everyone > > was taken in. That's the funny bit. > > I don't think it at all funny. It would have been if it were contained > within April 1st, but the long lead-in made most people suspect it was > true for too long, wasting time, effort and sympathy - which might not be > so forthcoming if the event were to occur for real. The only important point is that it did occur on 1 April. There was immedicate speculation that it was an AFJ. Those that rushed off wasting time, effort, and sympathey were premature. Everyone I spoke with adopted a wait-and-see attitude. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message