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The Oracle replies!
>Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:25:39 -0500 (EST)
>From: "The Internet Oracle" <[email protected]>
>Subject: The Oracle replies!
>To: Joe Zeff <[email protected]>
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>The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
>Your question was:
>
>> Oh Oracle, knower of all that can be known, teller of all that should be
>> told, answer, I pray, my question:
>>
>> In a recent Oracularities Digest, you told a supplicant that eunuchs could
>> not enter into the congragation. Does this mean that most of the hosts on
>> the Internet can't enter the congragation?
>> ---
>> Joe Zeff
>> The Guy With the Sideburns
>>
>> If you can't play with words, what good are they?
>>
>
>And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
>
>} <sigh> This is a common sort of confusion. "The congregation" in this case
>} is actually Bible-speak for the LAN, where as the Internet is more of a
>} distributed system. Most eunuch hosts are therefore only prohibited from
>} LANs, and even then, only LANs with non-eunuch nodes; eunuch hosts aren't
>} prohibited from congregating with each other.
>}
>} Like most Biblical prohibitions, this has fallen somewhat in these modern,
>} permissive times. Those machines that DO go against the Word and are on
>} LANs and the Internet with eunuch servers will be cast into the Pit for all
>} eternity, forced to run Microsoft applications forever and ever. Amen.
>}
>} You owe the Oracle the latest distribution of GNE emacs.
>}
>
>
---
Joe Zeff
The Guy With the Sideburns
If you can't play with words, what good are they?