It's [still] alive! "_tow_ the party line" [NP]

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>>eh

There is a bug/feature in the UGA software that blocks the sending of
an e-mail that is identical in content to an e-mail that one has
already sent, regardless of whether the subject-line has been changed.
Hence, I can send only a single message _truly_ empty of content, it
being clearly the case  that no empty set is distinct from any other
empty set.

So, even though I mark an e-mail as having "no (useful) content," that
e-mail _must_ have _some_ content and that content _must_ be distinct
from that of any other post that I've already sent. Otherwise, it will
be bounced. Said content, however, may be pure gibberish.

"There it is. Give it a name."

As they say in Vietnam-era novels.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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