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From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 16:47

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In article <1183@nsscb.UUCP> njc@nsscb.UUCP (Neil Cherry (STARGRP)) writes:

| This is not exactly a revenge story but:
| 
| An AT&T employee had one of the new 6386 machines. Well he stored his masters
| project on the machine and had completed all but the 2 final days worth. One
| day A friend of mine asked what practical joke could we play on him. The idea
| came up that we would recreate in his autoexec.bat what looked like a Low
| level drive format. 

  What a moron! Every year a few people seem to mess up their lives or
kill themselves because something happens to their thesis *by accident*,
and you think it's funny to fake it. Obviously AT&T has a more lenient
policy about interfering with other's work than GE, or you would never
admit this.
-- 
	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
davidsen@sixhub.uucp		...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen

"Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon

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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: "cookie"
Message-ID: <247@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 89 16:47:57 GMT
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