The coolest thing since sliced bread

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At least the message wasn’t…

Dear American GI,

…I has a business proposal you, I am the great grand-daughter of the best
friend of the deposed leader of Swassi Land. Swassi Land is sixteen miles
long, and three feet wide.

We is need someone four feet wide make big bank deposit us. Moron only need
apply…

Mark

P.S. Is this off topic, or what?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Garriss, Michael [mailto:Michael.Garriss@abacus-direct.com]
Sent: 12 December 2002 15:18
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread

Sorry Gavin. Actually it was 9 bytes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:06 PM
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread

A 12KB message with only 8 bytes of original content is grounds for
admonishment. Please observe newgroup etiquette as detailed
in the recently
posted comp.lang.ruby FAQ.

Gavin

From: “Garriss, Michael” Michael.Garriss@abacus-direct.com

Hmm…

-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]

Garriss, Michael wrote:

Ugh! Free write forces users into a new editor? I’m
lost without Vim.

Sounds like an opportunity to me!

Some Vim lover out there (maybe, you?) could easily create
a FreeRIDE plugin
to implement Vim key bindings.

Curt

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