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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 10:50:24 +0000
From: Allens <allen DOT asjp AT cableol DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: About Exe's format
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Thats wierd, so am I, but I was allowed a week ago,
or whenever we were having that conversation. Sorry

		Peter Allen

Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> At 09:22 PM 2/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >http://www.dordt.edu:457/topics/COFF.html
> 
> A 403? I am "forbidden to view this page"???
> How rude!
> 
> I want an apology.
> 
> There is no reason to go posting links here for people to look at and then
> setting your Web server to deny people access to the page you just offered
> for us to read.
> It's a silly and childish prank.
> I think justice will be served if you apologize to everyone here and change
> the permissions to make this COFF page of yours readable to anyone in this
> list. And if it were just a dummy page, replace it with a real one with
> real content about the file format.
> 
> In any case, I would think pranks like putting up a COFF web page that
> isn't world readable and giving us a link to it so that we all go to have a
> look and get told to f_ck off is beneath our station...we're computer
> programmers, not kindergarten students in a game of "Keep Away".
> 
> --
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