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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 18 October 2006 21:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:25:40PM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
>>>> In the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TANSTAAFL definition,
>>>> http://billdennis.net/heinlein/tanstaafl.htm is a bad link now; it
>>>> points to an ad site.
>> 	* acronyms/index.html (TANSTAAFL):  Point to wikipedia instead of
>> 	dead billdennis.net domain.
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Thanks for the patch, but I found the wikipedia article rather dry and
> unappetizing.  The Bill Dennis essay I used to point to was much better.
> I'm going to look for another good TANSTAAFL essay -- in the meantime,
> I've redirected the link to the Internet Archive snapshot of the essay.

Here is the article's current home:

http://heinleinblog.blogpeoria.com/2002/01/15/tanstaafl-and-bread-and-circuses/

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