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RE: Two new Zippy'ism contributions
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Two new Zippy'ism contributions |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:38:46 -0700 |
Maybe it sounds harsh, but the originals are often pretty inspired,
and it's not that easy to quickly churn outs stuff that's equally good;
if we distribute a file filled with randomly solicited replacements, I
expect the result will disappoint those people who use yow.
I agree with Miles on this. Of course the original quotations are inspired -
they're from Zippy!
Better to provide a hollow yow structure with, perhaps with one good line
(whether pseudozippyism or from today's news), than to churn out a long
list of mechanical pseudononsense.
I'm not sure whether that's better or worse than the command simply
ceasing to work...
We should keep the command - or at least its infrastructure, but replace the
quotations file with an empty file or a sample one-liner. The point is not
to replace Zippy but to show how to use yow.
- Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Andrew M. Scott, 2006/06/19
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Miles Bader, 2006/06/19
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Randal L. Schwartz, 2006/06/20
- RE: Two new Zippy'ism contributions,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/20
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Kim F. Storm, 2006/06/20
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Randal L. Schwartz, 2006/06/21
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Jay Belanger, 2006/06/21
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Kim F. Storm, 2006/06/22
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Miles Bader, 2006/06/22
- Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/22