Whilst surfing the 'Net recently, for some reason I happened to visit the "home page" of someone very seminal in the development of Unix (&& C, no less)--- who still apparently works for a company associated with AT&T.
A link on a rather fun page of his was broken (404), and I sent him an email about it, somewhat tongue in cheek, but having noted that he made mention of another broken link on the same page, a couple of <p>'s up.
Wow! He fixed it right away --- I got an email in return, from the man himself, on a machine with the characters "ux" in the name, and the following in the header:
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:59:43 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at archangel.daleco.biz
Now, this guy is probably the one with his pic by the word "Guru" in the Jargon file (well, sorta, kinda... ahrm...) At least it was "text/plain" ....
And, judging by the timestamp ... he must not be in New Jersey at the moment (or, at least, at that time). So, maybe he was in a 'Net cafe, or on a company laptop, or what not. Or maybe he just does his email at 5 AM EDT.
And, of course, there's nothing wrong with Outback Expense except.....
Trolling as usual ... but this is true, I just wondered if it was trivial or big news and should /.'ed or something, heh heh.... I mean, I occasionally read mail in OE. Very occasionally. But I can't remember the last mail I sent with it....
