You call it untidy#

Sat, 24 May 2008 13:08:32 +0000

One of the oddest experiences I've ever had (actually, that's not true, but let's pretend) is of writing something on Usenet and then reading it quoted, several years later, in someone's signature. It probably wouldn't have seemed so odd except that when I saw it for the first time (I've clocked it a few times since, and google says it's still in use) I genuinely couldn't remember having written it in the first place.

Anyway, a bit of googlegrouping later I find that "You call it untidy, I call it LRU ordered" dates from a post I made to alt.sysadmin.recovery back in April 1996 when I was a student and presumably should have been revising not reading Usenet.

I'm no longer a student, but looking at the floor in my flat right now, not that much else has changed.