Text written by Joergen Persson at 12:38 AM 4/1/99 +0200:
>At 16:49 1999-03-31 -0500, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
>>(except for the one about the host named efd.lth.se?, which shouldn't
>>be a surprise).
>[snip]
>
>Well, I think it's weird since efd.lth.se is a good server by a splendid
>admin about 500 meters away.
Well, sure, but is there a host named "efd.lth.se?" anywhere around? I've
never even heard of a .se? top-level domain, and I think it violates the
DNS standard, which doesn't allow ? as a character in host or domain names.
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
die horribly /v./
The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic
form of die. "The converter choked on an FF in its input and died
horribly".
