[TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX

[Larry McVoy]

Does anyone know where Mike is these days?

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:44:58PM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> Arnold
> 
> Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mike O???Brien (aka Mr. Protocol)
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All.
> > >
> > > This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about
> > > it on this list before.)
> > >
> > > At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in
> > > Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values.
> > > The one that won, which I remember to this day was:
> > >
> > > EMISTERED:
> > >         A host is a host from coast to coast,
> > >         and no-one can talk to host that's close,
> > >         unless the host that isn't close
> > >         is busy, hung, or dead.
> > >
> > > I have quoted this is the gawk doc for many years.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if there is a way to find out who was the author
> > > of this gem? I'd like to give him/her credit.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Arnold
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