[ih] what is and isn't the web, was Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

Dave Crocker dhc2 at dcrocker.net
Tue Aug 23 08:54:16 PDT 2016


On 8/23/2016 8:41 AM, John Levine wrote:
> It's not bad, but if I were sufficiently wedged, I'd say "don't be
> silly, the girl scouts show up in their little green uniforms and
> the guy at the gate will always let them through."


We always need to make sure that the perfect isn't the enemy...

If a big guy with a beard and cigar shows up wearing a girl scout 
uniform, he's not going to be let through...

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net



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