There's a famous folk-rule on Usenet and mailing lists to the effectthat a spelling flame usually has at least one spelling mistake itself.There seems to be a related rule on the web, which I will put this way:

Websites that boast about validating often don't.

(The corollary is that a certain amount of people agitating for validweb sites don't have valid web sites.)

Now, HTML validation is certainly picky (arguably morepicky than spelling), but I'd

There's a really simple two-part recipe for failing to create usefulubiquitous services at universities. It goes like this:

1. come up with an important service that should be ubiquitous.
2. fund it by charging its users.

The moment you start charging people for things at a university, youenter into a competition for their money. People start asking 'whyshould we spend money on this?' and 'why should we pay you for this?'and 'is this the best use for this money?'

The Unix Heritage Society has a nice statementof its aims on its front page, but let me skip straight to the neatbits: complete source code for early Unix versions , such as V7 andV6. You can browse things online, or get your own personal mirror. Fora long time, having this sort of thing was a Unix geek dream, and now Ihave my own (legal!) copy of it all.

One of the neat things I like doing with TUHS is browsing to see

Our SMTP listener died on Tuesday evening and was restarted, so some ofthis week's statistics are incomplete. This week, we:

• got 12,614 messages from 245 different IP addresses.
• handled 17,611 sessions from 882 different IP addresses.
• received 95,812 connections from at least 38,234 different IPaddresses since 21:10 Tuesday. (And about 43,000 connectionsfrom at least