High-tech liar's paradox (Re: test :-)

Edouard Lagache (elagache who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 14 Aug 97 12:56:47 -0700

>>this is a test. please ignore.
>>
>>Peggy
>
>Well I'm glad that your techies haven't smartened the list up so as to
>automatically ignore anything that announces itself as a test... thereby
>protecting list participants from ignorable messages but making the test
>fail! They do that sort of thing, you know...
>
>Eva

Well we could to that . . . but then . . . how could we test it? :-)
:-)

Peace, Edouard :-)

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