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Default Blinky's Funeral

On 2009-03-25, Frank Slootweg wrote:

> A tale of computers doing what you *tell* them to, not what you *want:
>
> Apparently I missed quite a lot from this thread and two others
> ("Blinky's Memorial Tomorrow" and "Blinky The Shark"). I happened to
> stumble on the rest when I browsed the log of my killfile. Most of the
> responses were killfiled by my "crossposted to more than N groups" rule
> (where in this (news.software.readers) case, N was 3).


I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

> I'm sure Blinky would have loved the irony!


Indeed.


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