Mike O’Brien (aka Mr. Protocol)

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
Hi All.

This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about
it on this list before.)

At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in
Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values.
The one that won, which I remember to this day was:

EMISTERED:
        A host is a host from coast to coast,
        and no-one can talk to host that's close,
        unless the host that isn't close
        is busy, hung, or dead.

I have quoted this is the gawk doc for many years.

I'm wondering if there is a way to find out who was the author
of this gem? I'd like to give him/her credit.

Thanks,

Arnold
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