Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:29:36 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!! Message-ID: <20050519062936.GA71975@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050519001737.518e40c5@dolphin.local.net> References: <20050516203932.0A38316A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> <20050519001737.518e40c5@dolphin.local.net>
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:17:37AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:32 +0000 (GMT), wpaul@freebsd.org (Bill Paul) > wrote: > > > > > Ok everyone, PAY ATTENTION! Drop whatevery your doing for the next > > five minutes and READ THIS!! > > [ ... ] > > Well, that's what you get for having a name that's made up of two first > names. :-) > > Seriously, where I work (the U.S. Postal Service), people with names > like yours cause no end of confusion and grief, particularly when it > comes to the forwarding of mail, as our oh-so-cleverly designed (read: > brain-damaged) Central Forwarding System (CFS) uses the first four > letters of the last name, along with the last three digits of the old > address (leading zero-padded, if need be), to distinguish one forwarding > order from another. And then you have magazine and newspaper > publishers, as well as other correspondents, who choose to invert the > order of names, for reasons known only to them and their Higher Power, > if they have one. You can just imagine the uproarious, madcap fun that > ensues. > > Sorry, but I've no sympathy at all. Bloody double first-namers. > You'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. :-) > *Gawk*!!!! I knew the US Postal "Service" was screwed up, but not this __this__ degree. ...Well, (*sigh*). Seriously, I hereby propose that everyone, every human, and most mammals be designed by a string of DIGITS. Befor people laugh, just think about thr billions of advantages. gary (aka 45689334177027483315780) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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