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Re: revenge

#277
From: DN5
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 16:17
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In article <3117@tymix.UUCP>, stimac@strider.uucp (Michael Stimac) says:
>>From the point of view of the hapless manager, his job would
>run imperceptibly slower each day; but after a period of months
>(and years) he would no longer be able to get his report finished
>within the 24-hour reporting period!
>
>Remember - don't try this at home, kids!

At the place where my wife works, there was a bunch of pranks played on
some of the new programmers hired.  My favorite was one of a simplest:
somebody added a time delay into her LOGIN.COM file (VAX VMS, folks).
Like the above modification, it added a few seconds each day to the
delay.  It was up to 10 minutes before she figured out why it took
her so long to log on...

                              Jay, etc...
                              d...@psuvm.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: revenge
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Date: 14 Dec 89 16:17:28 GMT
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