From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 08:32:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA19790 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:32:03 -0800 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA19784 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:32:02 -0800 Received: from fedora.x.org by expo.x.org id AA01423; Sun, 26 Mar 95 11:31:23 -0500 Received: by fedora.x.org id AA05188; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 11:31:23 -0500 Message-Id: <9503261631.AA05188@fedora.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Mosaic with Lesstif In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 26 Mar 1995 16:09:49 +0200. <199503261409.QAA26159@grunt.grondar.za> Organization: X Consortium Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 11:31:23 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Got an IP address? InterNIC doesn't know about it. The bigger name > > > servers in South Africa don't know about it either -- barnard.za > > > isn't even a legitimate domain name. > > > > > > Off hand I'd say that someone's pulling your leg. ftp.heart.barnard.za > > > isn't typical of the domain names used in South Africa, at least not > > > for academic institutions. If it were an academic institution, it might > > > be ftp.heart.barnard.ac.za, but that's not legitimate either. > > By now, any South African reading this is PISSING himself laughing! > > The message that prompted this had some typo implying transplants. > Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first suuccessful heart transplant > in the world here in South Africa (za). Of course it is bogus. Its > a joke. > > :-) :-) :-) :-) ;-) > Don't know about you, but I'm getting more a laugh from all the explanations. I'd say that anyone who can get from a misspelling of implementation in a reference to Motif to the first heart transplant must be smoking something really good. :-) How about if you send me a case of Castle Lager and I'll see if I can get close to ROTFL. Make it two, I'll save one for when it gets warm and have a nice braai. Any think we ought to try to stay on a relevant topic? -- Kaleb