clever ruse

[William L. Sebok]

> Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the
> annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does.
> Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null!

That reminds me of the time when we had two system managers here.  One got
annoyed about the other's long messages of the day.  He fixed it by making
/etc/motd a link to /dev/null.  Ever try to edit /dev/null?
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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