on Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 06:43:02PM -0400, John Levine via mailop wrote:
> When I connect to Gmail's IMAP server, one of the capbilities it
> advertises is "xyzzy". Anyone know what that is?
>
> I know the etymology (same place as plugh) but what's it supposed to do?
Back in the mid-90s I ran Eudora Mac as an email client, and one of the
first things I figured out how to do was configure it to add stupid X
headers, so if you were among my correspondents during that time you
know that my email contained an X header like so:
X-Because-I-Can: because I can
I wonder if that's the same dorky joke in a different form.
The other thing I figured out was how to make it such that when I got a
new message it played the "message for you, sir" sound from Monty
Python's Holy Grail with the squire getting killed by an arrow. :-) That
was insanely amusing for the first few days, anyway.
Also, for a time around the same era, my .sig on certain lists was
> Steven Champeon | It is very dark. You are
> http://www.hesketh.com/schampeo/ | likely to be eaten by a grue.
> http://www.jaundicedeye.com | - Zork
I remember how thrilled I was that they made a version of Zork you could
play on the Palm Pilot. Never mind drug wars.
West of House,
Steve
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