[H-GEN] SUID, and Unix groups [long] [was: okie just what I sort of need to know]

[Anthony Towns]

On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 03:15:45PM -0500, Byron Ellacott wrote:
> >Nah, that's just how sysadmin's tend to talk.  I believe it originates
> >from the monastary[1] and from there has become a common trait.
> I think[0] I picked this particular habit[1] up from Nooks[2] [...]

I picked it up from rasfwr-j [0], who may've picked it up from asr [1],
or talk.bizarre, or may've invented it on its own. It's a pretty obvious
extrapolation from standard academic foot noting.

Cheers,
aj

[0] rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. Who (Robert Jordan, not the
    newsgroup) will be signing copies of _the Path of Daggers_ in Myer
    next monday. While I'm out of the state. Typical.

[1] alt.sysadmin.recovery

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        results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.''
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