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Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book"

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On 2021-01-23, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:50:49 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
><tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>> In this case,
>> it's not a password, it is a filename that needs to be guessed
>> in order to access the file.
>
> That's been true of shopping for ages -- I couldn't buy a grease
> pencil until I learned that it was a china marker.
>
> It's particularly annoying when the curb-service web page advertises a
> product that the search box is confident doesn't exist.
>
> But I'll be allowed to go into a grocery store starting St. Patrick's
> Day!
>

Don't be too sure. The usual Winter sicknesses subside after 1st April
or so, and those set above us by God, may allow some letup then.

>>
> Assuming that California does nothing obviously stupid, such as
> exporting the new strains they have incubated.
>


-- 
greymausg@mail.com

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Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-18 21:46 +0000
  Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 01:02 -0800
    Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-19 10:24 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 02:43 -0800
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2021-01-19 12:00 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@127.0.0.1> - 2021-01-19 12:07 +0000
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-20 12:38 +0000
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Paul_news <paul@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-20 19:56 +0000
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-01-20 20:14 +0000
              Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 21:52 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Paul_news <paul@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-21 23:16 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2021-01-21 18:44 -0600
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-22 21:02 +0000
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-23 12:52 -0800
                Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-24 21:21 +0000
      Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-01-19 07:58 -0700
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-01-19 18:50 +0000
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-01-22 23:41 -0500
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-23 15:17 +0000
            Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-01-23 16:17 -0700
              Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2021-01-24 08:08 +0000
        Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-25 17:55 -0800
          Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-01-26 08:42 -0700
  Re: Computer from Nero Wolfe "Murder by the book" Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-01-19 01:03 -0800

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