A long, long time ago

I’m trying to clean up some old files, and ran across this:

From: Charles Sebold 
Subject: Test mail for Gnus
To: Charles Sebold 
Date: 12 Jul 2000 18:51:17 -0500
X-Sent: 8 years, 5 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 27 minutes, 20 seconds ago
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

This is test mail for Gnus.
--
Charles Sebold
--
8th of Tamuz, 5760
--
Cohn's Law:
        The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less
        time you have to do anything.  Stability is achieved when you spend
        all your time reporting on the nothing you are doing.

I think that this is the first email I ever successfully sent from Gnus — or at least a Gnus that I compiled myself (I would have started with Gnus 5.7 on Emacs 20.5 most likely).

In other news, just yesterday I finally removed the Hebrew date code from my emacs customization files.

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4 Comments

  1. Gummby (66 comments.)
    Posted 8/19/2008 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

    So have you sent this in as miracle 1 on your way to übergeek status?

  2. Charles Sebold
    Posted 8/19/2008 at 1:03 pm | Permalink

    The committee has ruled that it doesn’t count as a miracle unless it has actually resulted in a net savings of time.

    They don’t make too many übergeeks as a result.

  3. Gummby (66 comments.)
    Posted 8/19/2008 at 7:42 pm | Permalink

    *That* is also a theme of a future blogpost of mine. Scary.

  4. Charles Sebold
    Posted 8/19/2008 at 7:45 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, my labor-saving programming tasks usually aren’t. But sometimes they have serendipitous benefits that actually do help in some way.

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