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Does anyone know why MJD posted this? (Well, probably MJD does. So I guess I mean: Is anyone here in a position to explain why MJD posted it? Just general i

• JdeBP 6y ago
  These aren't postings. They are downloadable files in a "misc¨ directory on a WWW server which is full of all sorts of stuff: https://www.plover.com/misc/ https://www.plover.com/misc/ For actual postings, in a web-log, go and look at https://blog.plover.com/2015/08/07/ https://blog.plover.com/2015/08/07/ .
• floatingatoll 6y ago
  mjd's reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444125
• mjd 6y ago
  I posted this because around 2003 I spent a significant amount of time tracking it down. So I saved it, so that I wouldn't lose it, and so if I ever got around to writing an article about the message, I would have it handy and easy to find. This is important, because when I finally got around to writing the articles, twelve years later, I found it where I had left it. When I save something that I had trouble finding, I often try to save it in a place that other people will be able to find it, so save trouble for the next person. I don't remember where I found the paper the first time around, and I don't know if that location still exists. But stuff I throw into plover.com/~mjd/misc is (so far) available forever. There are files there that haven't been modified since 1994.
  • JadeNB 6y ago
    Thank you!