[TUHS] v8 /etc/motd

[Kenneth Goodwin]

But Sir
I can't find the

ALMOST ANY

Key on my keyboard.
Please help me locate it 🙏

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 4:00 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> "you might have mail" -- nice.
>
> Kind of like the Plan 9
> "Press almost any key to reboot..."
>
> This was from the late Jim McKie, who realized that the PC keyboard
> had a few keys that would not count as a keypress.
>
> jmk once claimed to me, with a smile on his face, that Ken said the
> message was pedantic :-)
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 12:44 PM Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> >
> > My favorite MOTD is:
> >
> > You might have mail.
> >
> > I told one of my student operators that if he put that in there before
> > the morning was out, someone would be in my office to tell me they got
> > the message but they didn’t have any mail.
> > I wasn’t expecting it to be one of my senior programmers.   Well, it
> > only said you MIGHT have mail.
> >
> > Somewhere there was a post circulating around with humorous MOTDs.
> > That was on it, I believe.
> >
>
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