Tuesday October 22 1996 05:44, andrew clarke wrote to Frank Adam:

 >> Sorry about answering like this, but 635/544 is going to close this
 >> weekend so i'm on the other BBS now,

 ac> All the more reason to start pointing.  You've got the software
 ac> already, and I even sent you a set of configuration files.  You really
 ac> have no excuse.  

The offer is still open if you want to point from me....

61-3-9388-1547 is 3:635/727 (BBS & mailer), 61-3-9388-9292 is 3:635/728
(mailer ONLY). You'd be pointing from 3:635/728 but if you need to contact
me for some reason then log on to 3:635/727 or send me netmail. If you have
your mailer up, try some test polls and FREQs to 3:635/728. You can use the
point address 3:635/728.6.

And to keep on topic, here's a little present, swiped from C_ECHO a while ago:



*/

 /**********************************************************************
 *                                                                     *
 *                         BORLAND C++ 2.0                             *
 *                   Placed in the public domain 12/95.                *
 *                          Jim Connelley                              *
 *                                                                     *
 *  This little gem of a program generates a random INSULT using the   *
 *  arrays given below.  This program will potentially generate about  *
 *  50 x 50 x 50 pretty good insults.                                  *
 *                                                                     *
 *  The list of words comes from a FAQ issued monthly by Chris Laning  *
 *  on usenet newsgroup ALT.FAIRS.RENAISSANCE.                         *
 *  This does not answer any "Deep" C programming questions. So sue me.*
 *                                                                     *
 **********************************************************************/

#include 
#include 
#include 

char * first[]  = {
                    
"artless","bawdy","beslubbering","bootless",
                    
"churlish","clouted","craven","currish",
                    
"dankish","dissembling","droning","errant",
                    
"fawning","fobbing","forward","frothy",
                    
"gleeking","goatish","gorbellied","impertinent",
                    
"infectious","jarring","loggerheaded","lumpish",
                    
"mammering","mangled","mewling","mincing",
                    
"paunchy","posturing","pribbling","puking",
                    
"puny","quailing","rank","reeky","roguish",
                    
"ruttish","saucy","spleeny","spongy","surly",
                    
"tottering","unmuzzled","vain","venomed",
                    
"villainous","warped","wayward","weedy",
                     "yeasty"
                  };

char * secon[]  = {
                    
"base-court","bat-fowling","beef-witted",
                    
"beetle-headed","boil-brained","clay-brained",
                    
"common-kissing","crook-pated","dismal-dreaming",
                    
"dizzy-eyed","doghearted","dread-bolted",
                    
"earth-vexing","elf-skinned","fat-kidneyed",
                    
"fen-sucked","flap-mouthed","fly-bitten",
                    
"folly-fallen","fool-born","full-gorged",
                    
"guts-griping","half-faced","hasty-witted",
                    
"hedge-born","hell-hated","idle-headed",
                    
"ill-breeding","ill-nurtured","knotty-pated",
                    
"milk-livered","motley-minded","onion-eyed",
                    
"plume-plucked","pottle-deep","pox-marked",
                    
"reeling-ripe","rough-hewn","rude-growing",
                    
"rump-fed","shard-borne","sheep-biting",
                    
"spur-galled","swag-bellied","tardy-gaited",
                    
"tickle-brained","toad-spotted","urchin-snouted",
                     "weather-bitten"
                  };

char * third[]  = {
                    
"apple-john","baggage","barnacle","bladder",
                    
"boar-pig","bum-bailey","canker-blossom",
                    
"clack-dish","clotpole","coxcomb","codpiece",
                    
"death-token","dewberry","flap-dragon",
                    
"flax-wench","flirt-gill","foot-licker",
                    
"fop","fustilarian","giglet","gudgeon",
                    
"haggard","harpy","hedge-pig","horn-beast",
                    
"hugger-mugger","jolthead","lewdster",
                    
"lout","maggot-pie","malt-worm","mammet",
                    
"measle","minnow","miscreant","moldwarp",
                    
"mumble-news","nut-hook","pigeon-egg",
                    
"pignut","puttock","pumpion","ratsbane",
                    
"scut","skainsmate","strumpet","varlet",
                     "vassal","whey-face","wagtail"
                  };


int main(void)
{
  struct timeb t;          /* structure with millisecs for random seed */

  ftime(&t);               /* get millisecs */

  srand(t.millitm);        /* seed random # generator with milliseconds */

  printf("\n Thou %s %s %s. \n",
        first[random(sizeof first /sizeof(char*))],
        secon[random(sizeof secon /sizeof(char*))],
        third[random(sizeof third /sizeof(char*))]);

  return 0;

}


/*

Cheers.

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