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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:37:15 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <20060419193714.GA39763@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <444569E1.90609@root.org>
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:36:17PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote..
> Mark Linimon wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:48:30PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> >>>Are you absolutely sure that the corruption isn't intentional?  Note
> >>>that the only non-printable characters are \a; it seems to me that the
> >>>point of this truncated entry is precisely to leave the reader
> >>>wondering what the punchline is and cursing the "line noise".
> >>I think the line noise should be replaced with something about Hitler.
> >
> >Godwin's Law invoked.  Film at 11.
> 
> Can I claim to have invented a law also?

Sure you can.  And maybe you should commit it to the fortune/datfiles to
preserve it for historical purposes?  :-P

> Nate's law:
> 1. Each commit to fortune/datfiles generates at least 20 comments
> 2. People only commit to fortune/datfiles to keep their commit bit from 
> expiring
> Conclusion: expiring commit bits cause the most discussion
> 
> -- 
> Nate
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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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