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> * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Mutter mutter fscking substandard perl software. We probably *could* do
> > a better job in Postscript.
> >
>
> im starting to like Java
>
prevert ...
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> Save money at TPC5. Present a paper and get in free :)
>
> <http://conferences.oreilly.com/perl5/>
>
.. mmm ... nice ferret.
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nt
and discovery that, after 4 pints, Theakstons Old Peculiar did not have
the same alcohol content as four Miller Lites like we told him .. silly
mistake .. easily made ...
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for anyone who cares .. happyfunball apparently is all bouncy again
..they found the duff wotsit and put a less duff one in ..
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om Tracey Thorn when I was in Hull...
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that out of XXX million people .. purely by
chance, the current president is the brother of the one before last ...
ooh .. stop it .. its getting all political .. ;))
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>
> >
> > not even the comic genius jim davidson's adult one?
>
> I'm sorry, but using the terms "comic genius" and "jim davidson" in the
> same sentence[1] can only lead to nonsense.
>
wodya mean .. he's easily as funny as ... err .. Bernard Manning ??
:)
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not in London.
but I digress ... :)
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out 30 years younger than him..) was being interviewed on some
daytime TV show and was asked ...
"so .. what first attracted you to the multi-millionaire Paul Daniels ?"
she didn't seem best pleased :o)
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curious .. Might be missing a obvious point.
whatever ... this time tomorow I'll be in Finland .. mmm .. white
christmas guaranteed. ;)
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ward it on to him?
naah .. .. its like a pub here innit .. various topics come up but I
don;t particularly see the need to keep running over to other peoples
tables and telling em what we're talking about. He's welcome to pop over
and buy us a beer though :)
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cluefulness required to do the cpan thing, so I cant see the ease of ppm
(which is no easier than the MCPAN thing imho) being a factor .
just my 2 penneth. now .. how can I get it onto my lapto tha has no
cdrom or network card? ... I see a very long 9600 baud call to demon ...
:)
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> push @ARGV, '/usr/dict/words';
which reminds me .. is there a /usr/dict/words with correct spellings for
english out there somwhere??? ...
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g less contraversial .. like semi naked hooters girls or
summink?? :)) wouldn't want to upset our corporate overlords now would
we ...
(err thats a joke by the way before anybody says anything ..)
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in peak holiday season IMHO .. Orlando would be a nice
alternative tho' .. :)
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s copyright on this original work. he then intends to promote a
'selected excerpt' from his original work after the draw, and sue the
football league if they infringe his copyright by publishing an identical
list. hes obviously mad, but hey .. he might even win :)
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ed hosts and that about does it.
at least a quick tweak with a rpm or two can make it into a decent
install, where as many other OS's are plain incurable.
All seem to have a weakness from Solaris to Plan9 .. redhat just got
rooted because it was popular ..
as a matter of interest what
d, you
> better have your methodolgy documented somewhere.
and if I publish all the variants .. and each week Billboard 'copy' one
of my 'works of art' can I sue them ? :)
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00p
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> There's a difference between what the conslutant gets and what the client
> pays!
not here at 'Redpoint Consulting' there isn't :)
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than I was a year ago ...
and I know a Security Guru who would probably be up for it as well ..
and hes a proper one too, I believe his wardrobe has all three shades of
hat :)
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;ve done enough project
managment to know that it probably is too good to be true) but I shure
would like to give it a go.
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intereset I was offered 133mhz DIMMS of the 256Mb flavour
for ~65 + vat the other day .. memory has plummetted now is a very good
time to buy.
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DN is cool .. and from this quarters BT bil I only was connected for a
paltry 786 hours too ...
:)
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If you prefer one type of working much
over another then do it that way .. both have merit.
and I'm still dead keen to be involved in an XP project :))
whatever .. if you lot are going to be in Chinatown on Monday thats as
good a reason as any I can see for making a trip to the smoke ... se
h it. The true test of team managment is to prevent the
different team roles from irritating the hell out of each other ;))
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only way to do it all
the time.
The probelm I have at home is NOT being averly dostracted, but getting
carried away and forgetting to eat for too many hours :)
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add
ntpdate to your root crontab someday too .. :)
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e time couldnt even get it to run, by the end of
the week all they'd done was write some strange "library" code and even
that doesn;t seem to do anything'
but hey .. next person organising a XP based project that needs a junior
perl hacker .. gimme a shout ..
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t would be a fantastic mentoring and mutual improvement
system.
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till [speaking of which its Chamonix again in 2 weeks]
just my $1 / (2500^0.5)
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Same here. I don't think there's any point in arguing which is "best",
> life is about balance and adapting to whatever is appropriate at the
> time (beware methodolgies ;-).
now that makes a whole bucket of sense to me. Y
nline/25/geeks.html
much more up to speed with the culture.
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rid of
the script and run tripwire from crontab once a day at a more useful
hour.
'part from that its just fine.
I run Dedrat 7.0 on my server at mailbox and having turned off all the
dangeroos stuff and set up the IPCHAINS and put SSH on it its been
totally reliable and unhacked.
-
alling routine
my (%data);
$data{text}='Hello World';
my ($result)=Template::test(\%data);
print $result;
exit 0;
package Template;
sub test{
my ($data)=shift;
return <
$data->{text}
END
}
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EALLY want to avoid the putting
code into the templates and using the various [% FOREACH ...%] cos thats
just as bad as putting html inline innit?
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, I wrote:
> so while I'm on .. what is wisdom on this then .. my method was going to
err hold your answers .. I'm just reading the docs on (the recently
discovered) templatetoolkit.org
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Keeping employees 101: Show respect, recognise them, care for
> them and provide opportunity for growth. It's all about the
> love; that's all anyone really wants.
and money ... lots and lots of money ...
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is the very best company to work
for AND the very best company to have work done by' A1 bleeding edge code
written by the planets happiest programmers ... sounds like a good recipe
to me.
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over from a
12 month period of development with little breaks) ...
and this template toolit thing rocks dunnit .. (now I have the hang of it
.. sorta)
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little voice in my head keeps
saying 'please let this be true' .. but sometimes when people come up
with such abstract ideas as 'a client that understands what they want' I
do begin to wonder if its not pushing it a bit far ;))
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on't forget the welding gear.
good point, well made. .. hey .. say I wanted weld a diesel tank for
instance ...
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o work that way .. or even the
time or inclination to do it. I can see a role of 'architect' being
needed on occasion.
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ut as a template .. it could come in handy :))
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > Much as I love Computer Modern for technical work, using it for fiction
> > would just be WRONG WRONG WRONG.
If you are interested, I have some technical documents that could also be
called fiction .. is it alright to use computer modern then?
yway .. so i guess it makes no difference.. mean
what you say and say what you mean. so .. an archive .. kewl :)'
I must admit I don;t particularly like the idea of someone else holding
this info though .. I mean .. its like 'ours' innit .. but i have no
objection to an archive per-se,
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > I must admit I don;t particularly like the idea of someone else holding
> > this info though .. I mean .. its like 'ours' innit .. but i have no
>
> i'm sure you could
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a
> half of video tape.
can't you just gzip it?
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> * Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > > Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a
> > > half of video tape.
> >
> > can't you ju
or guess right each time?
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he Grail'
and summink else .. Get the Grail takes you through a little sequence '
of congratulations youve found the grail .. thanks for playing' and the
programme then quits.
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > this works fine if the function returns a list with more than one thing
> > in it .. if there is only one thing in the array I get a 'dont kno
array.
solved .. it just took me a while to twig what was going on.
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ust pass it a scalar ref
my ($stuff);
eg $tt->process('prices.tt2', $vars, \$stuff );
and lo .. it ends up in $stuff.
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programming style' and
is way way way away from 'Good Perl' but it was aimed at non programmers
and as such the idea of subroutines and lexically scoped variables is
probably a bit hard for them.
but the code does stink. I have to keep it in a plastic bag just to stop
the smell from getting out.
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said (by some famoose newspaper tycoon ISTR) that no
one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of their
readership.
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>no one ever said the buying public were intelligent ...
>
> Well, people rise to meet expectations too. There is precious little in
> the way of good CGI books with a practical slant to th
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>i think we get a slanted view on what a 'normal level of intelligence'
> *>is, because in general, we work with exceptional people. I spent the last
>
> I know at least 2 n
d code is prfessionally written ... and
mostly not out there on display .. you have to buy it!
> *>I dunno .. I guess there is the 'type this in like this' level and there
> *>is the full blown 'buy a copy of Programming Perl' approach I dont see
> *>much middl
ants of modules (flatfile
based, MySQL based etc) where as the acceptance tests just work with
whatever module is loaded and treat it as a black box ...???
am I making any sense ? .. oh well ...
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Struan Donald wrote:
> >
> > *and* they have blue LEDs :)
> >
>
> ( find blue LEDs on http://rswww.com/ if you dont believe me)
>
I seldom order from spammers.
try http://www.farnell.com
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then it might be difficult to see exactly where it went worng...
hmm the trick seems to be not so much in the semantics of perl (the whole
OO thing of method dispatch and inheritance is fairly straightforward
really now I get to grips with it ) its mainly down to the design and
subtlties of which bits go in where ...
ho hum .. back to the codeface.
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t 3 foot off the
> platform,
translation: ron was so drunk she thought she could fly!
> she basically grabbed the door and swung on it out of the train
translation: we had got to the 'maybe I'm a gymnast' stage of drunkeness
achh enough :)
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use the
same name spelt the same way on subsequent uses. surely it would make
more sense to change one character each time in a humorous fashion.
just my GBP 0.02 worth ( ~ 8.67 EUR at current exchange rates )
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I find my
local bookshop happy to match prices and gets then within a week usually.
> i think B&N's appeal against them is going well for B&N
good oh .. still think theyre a bunch of baskets though.
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it
should be "Muttley is an Arsehole" .. I dunno, such poor grammar these
days :))
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Has anyone yet called French a glue language for English?
ahh ... but what it boils down to is you are indulging in a little
horse play at the expense of our Gallic freinds. it is amusing to make
thes little remarks on the hoof is it not? ..
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > From: Robin Szemeti [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Has anyone yet called French a glue language for English?
> >
> > ahh ... but what it boils down to is you are indulging in a little
> > horse play at the expense of our
elly it looks like an 'anything
goes' open combat stuation .. in reallity its very tightly
administrated and designed not to let you kill and mutilate the house
bots, and make you look good on telly.
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eed to know at least
a little about the Linux security model then that kinda narrows it down a
bit dunnit.
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Robin Szemeti [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>
> *>I know in the publishing world people do things for ludicrously samll
> *>amounts, but thats because you can usually find a starving author that
> *>will do it for pennies, but if you as
short of it is: I have bleeding forgotten where the f it is
and despite searcing can I find it? .. nope. and its beginning to bug me
.. lots.
anyone who recognises what I'm talkning about and can give a filename or
URI please put me out of my misery and remind me where it was.
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m-to-email processor."
> ^
>
> Does that strike you with fear and dread, then? :-)
well .. to be fair .. yes its appalling Perl but it works, and it IS the
industry standard if only because there is nothing better freely
available.
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Th
of that .. so its probably close enough ..
thanks ;)
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gy. Sure it has to work because crappy software costs
much more to admin than decent s/w but the drive to keep costs down ahs
forced many ISPs to take the open source/free stuff route ..
unfortunatley for the planet FormMail is now so standard that if you
didn;t have it your punters would ask for it! .
always have my cgi-bin directory
outside my document root .. makes sense to me.
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If they are, fire the sysadmin.
never a truer word ... of course if you _did_ want to discover a users
password its not that hard .. there are ways ... I believe we have some
world renowned experts on the topic at hand ... now where is 'merlin' when
you need him :)
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> enough people find moving/copying files on windows complex... when
> you start introducing a second computer...
hmmm I wouldn't place such creatures as far up the food chain as 'people'
.. but I know what you mean.
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rraterm and TTSSH are what I have on the laptop for those 'emergency'
moments.
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the client really needs to constantly upload
> and download files in an encrypted state, setting up a VPN is the way to go,
> and then they can use whatever they want, presumably SMB or NFS if the pipe
> is at all reliable.
ugh .. SMB .. shiver ...
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the ones who will require the most
idiotic handholding and AND want to pay the least for the service ...
there is a rather good ISP on Hawaii that plainly states 'the service is
not suitable for clueless users' .. ring em up and ask too many docile
questions and they pull your account ..
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> > now where is
> > 'merlin' when you need him :)
>
> ITYM 'merlyn' (or 'q[merlyn]').
ahh yes .. you have the better of me there.
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know' chapter 2 from OO Perl (Conway) cos that one
chapter replaces pretty much all of learning perl in 1/10 of the
verbosity. .. and ideally the whole book :)
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. apparently the number of $BIG_CORPs with unrestricted
phone access at the reception desk makes this very worthwhile.
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/Store/SharedMem/HelperClass.pm or whtever
apart from the base class which you just put in the root
ie move ./Apache/Session/Store/SharedMem.pm to ./
and make sure it has the full package name.
perl Makefile.pl and make manifgest again .. and that might work
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OK .. I'm getting desperate now :)
Anyone out there running Redhat 7.0?
managed to build PGP from source on it? ... or if not found a binary of
PGP that works with PGP::Sign ?? . .poxy things giving me grief ..
of course it builds fine on 6.2.
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 12:25:28PM +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> > OK .. I'm getting desperate now :)
> >
> > Anyone out there running Redhat 7.0?
> >
> > managed to build PGP from source on it? ... or if not foun
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Robin Szemeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OK .. I'm getting desperate now :)
> >
> > Anyone out there running Redhat 7.0?
> >
> > managed to build PGP from source on it? ... or if not found a binary of
>
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 02:01:11PM +0000, Robin Szemeti wrote:
>
> >I haven't considered the GPG option yet .. its going to be for a user
> >thing .. and PGP is more common .. I am right in thinking that GPG and
> >PGP ar
u can .. works best for both sides. The
costs of setup are small, the costs (in terms of time to admin it) is
small (1 hour a week max, plus a couple of days at some poin tduring hte
year to get it all together and hassle the accountant) but the benfits,
financially are significant.
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Robin Szemeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Matt's Scripts Projects
>
>
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001,
.. which if you take a lot of holidays or find it
difficult to get a contract could be advantageous to be able to do that
sort of thing from time to time.
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l files from the
specified ZIP archive. A companion program, zip(1), creates
ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives
created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many
cases the program options or default behaviors differ.
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ggest introducing the concept of a large blank form field and
allowing the address to be in an appropriate local format ;)
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h the
postmen can't even deliver it with the correct address on including post
code .. so they must be martian postmen you are talking about ...
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..
nahh .. you just chip in whenever you feel like it. If its vaguely
relevant we'll soon let you know so you can avoid that mistake in future
;))
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or Perl .. and although perl -d is great its not as good as
something like Borland TurboDebugger.
Whether I actually need it is a different question .. if its much too
hard with a print statement then that probably tells you something about
the code :) ..
[I should add something about caller(
ht
diffreneces of opinion but total polarity .. and 28 out of 31 found the
great review helpful .. bet he got his mate to write it :)
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
>
> > bet he got his mate to write it :)
>
> I noticed that. For a moment I thought it was a rigged review by the
> author / his friend / the publisher. But we know that respectable
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