From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 06:24:17 EDT
> The departing AWN editorwrote to his successor; mailing him three
> encrypted attachments, he explained, "My predecessor didn't do this for
> me, but I'll do this for you. At the first sign of trouble: decrypt,
> read, re-encrypt and obey the first message. If problems continue or
> are reborn, repeat with the second. Should things should get worse,
> repeat with the last one. Good luck."
>
> The new editor returned to his comic-reading, copied the encrypted
> messages to a new directory and gave little thought to their contents.
>
> Twenty-four issues later, when bugs soared and readership
> plummeted, the shaken new editor decrypted the first message, which
> said, "Blame it all on me." The next issue, he did just that, and the
> crisis passed.
>
> Twenty-four issues later, commits dropped precipitously. The
> beleagured editor decrypted the second message. It read, "Reorganize."
> The next issue announced that the scripts would be rewritten. That
> crisis also passed.
>
> Forty-eight issues later, everything went wrong at once and the
> editor was blamed for all of it. The harried writer went offline, got
> on the edge of his seat and decrypted the third file. The message
> started: "Keep these handy...."
>
> Okay, I admit it.... I jumped the gun;)
that is sooooo old
and putting in context does not make it any funnier
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