Re: [exim] Humour: Jeremy's piratical influence on Exim

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Humour: Jeremy's piratical influence on Exim
On 2013-11-04 at 22:56 +0000, Dennis Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > Apparently, we've added "cutthroat delivery".
> >
> > I may need to augment my chainmail with a coif before I attend
> > another
>
> Chain mail? Coif? I can't believe I'm reading this stuff.
>
> You're an exim developer. Retrograde is not for you. At the very
> least I'd expect you to be protected by a personal, fusion-powered
> force field[1]. Accept nothing less!


Ah, the same rookie mistake made by the alien invaders in Poul
Anderson's classic, The High Crusade.

I read that at a formative age. Good stuff. Available in ebook form
now.

And I'm an Exim developer, so I work in C. That's retrograde.

-Phil