Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:58:58PM -0300,
> Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Dave is impressive, indeed. But Dan's got to get the prize.
> > Let's see. The man is a teacher, active researcher writing
> > papers about Number Theory (that's what I want to be when I
> > grow up) and a better system administrator than most system
> > administrators out there. Not only that, he knows the finer
> > points (read: "bugs") about many software releases (namely,
> > BIND, sendmail, Apache etc) and inconsistences on RFCS.
>
> You forgot to add "Freedom Fighter".
In case others do not know, Dan is famous for going to court with the
US government on a little Freedom of Expression matter. He wanted to
publish a program called "Snuffle." Our government wanted to prevent
the publication of this program. Here's a Google search that returns a
lot of hits:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Snuffle+%2BBernstein&num=10&meta=hl%3Den%26lr%3D
His code is great but IMHO this is by far his most important
contribution.
-John
--
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
