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Re: OT: learning curve (was: a little comparison of procmail and maildrop)



* David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [04-11-2003 05:57]:

> I'd be interested in seeing the first documented use of that term.
> I wonder whether the guy who invented the term actually used it that
> way, 'cause it certainly doesn't make much sense to put time into the
> equation, IMHO.

Time *or attempts (number of trials)*.  The guy who invented it
couldn't know upfront that most of the people were going to misuse
the term.  Come on, learn to live with that.

-- 
René Clerc                      - (rene@xxxxxxxx) - PGP: 0x9ACE0AC7

MISS, n.  The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate
that they are in the market.  Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are
the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound
and sense.  Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master.
-Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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