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From: Ron Natalie <ron -at- sensor -dot- com>
Subject: Re: I feel insulted! :-)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:26:50 -0400
Organization: Sensor Systems
Sounds like UniPress EMACS. It used to have some error messages
that referred to the user as "twit." When users complained about
the messages, they were told the insults could be disabled if they
set the user_is_pinhead variable to true.
Somehow that didn't seem to make them any happier :-)
