[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lut54h$leh$1 at news.albasani.net>,
	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2014-09-11 23:28:
>> In article <lusvh5$b2v$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt
>> <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Note that it is now almost impossible to anonymously author books.
>>>
>>> Computers can match up writing styles well enough that, with only
>>> a fairly small example, one can determine who wrote something.
>>
>> Here on usenet, I can often recognize regular posters after reading just
>> one line, or less (and I don't mean those who post the Really Long
>> Lines; I mean a normal line of 72 characters or yes).  In particular,
>> Hoff here and Richard Maine in comp.lang.fortran are immediately
>> recognizable.
>>
>>> For the previous question, right behind has similar meaning to
>>> immediately behind.
>>
>> Yes, I know; I just needed the setup.  :-)
>>
>>> I have no idea if it is related to right
>>> and left, though.
>>
>> Vaguely.  Synonyms for right are good: dextrous, correct, etc.  Those
>> for left are bad: sinister, etc.  So "right" in "right behind" is
>> something positive, right behind it, i.e. not far away but immediately
>> behind it.
>>
> 
> I read a good book on that matter a few weeks ago:
> http://www.amazon.com/Right-Hand-Left-Chris-McManus/dp/0753813556
> Amongst other things it has a discussion around why "left"
> is "bad" and "right" is "good" in many cultures.
> Recomended...
> 

I would imagine it has much to do with the reason why, when walking
with a woman, she should be on your left arm.

bill

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