Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

From: Patrick McFarland
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 05:09:16 EST


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:51 pm, Steven Rostedt wrote:
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> Is this a joke? It doesn't make sense sending a disclaimer like this to
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A lot of buisnesses have their MTAs setup to automatically add that
attachment. IMHO it is a /very/ bad idea to do so, and is probably some form
of violation of the employees' free speech rights.

That, and since he sent it to the lkml, everyone subscribed is the intended
recipient. ;)

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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
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repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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