First sign of madness

[ewx]

Found in the depths of ~richard/mail/chiark-TODO.tar.gz:

From richard@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 17 00:04:29 1996
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:04:28 +0100 (BST)
From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
To: richard@elmail.co.uk
Subject: this is a stupid thing to do
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...and what's worse, it's being done from a talk session.

ttfn/rjk

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I imagine I was demonstrating ytalk's ability to run a shell inside itself to someone I was chatting with at the time. stephdairy or lizardc are the most likely interlocutors...

[lizardc.livejournal.com]

Well, if it was me, I have forgotten cos I don't remember it :).

Ytalk though.. and 1996! Time flies...