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    From Halloween Documents@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 02, 2026 22:00:00
    The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft
    memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to
    these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were
    published by open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond in 1998.

    The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were originally leaked close to October 31 in different years.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents>

    Tuesday, 02 June 2026 @ 22:00:

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  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 02, 2026 19:13:52
    On Tue, 6/2/2026 5:00 PM, Halloween Documents wrote:
    The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were
    published by open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond in 1998.

    The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were originally leaked close to October 31 in different years.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents>

    Tuesday, 02 October 1998 @ 22:00:


    It seems like only yesterday.

    When Balmer was just a small boy... and not very sweaty.

    Penny candy were $0.03 each.

    Only Cher looks exactly the same.

    Paul

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  • From Java Jive@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 03, 2026 01:26:25
    On 2026-06-03 00:13, Paul wrote:

    Only Cher looks exactly the same.

    LOL! She should be preserved for the nation! Oh ... I guess she
    already has been, after a fashion :-)

    --

    Fake news kills!

    I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk


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  • From bad sector@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 15, 2026 11:17:19
    On 6/2/26 7:13 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 6/2/2026 5:00 PM, Halloween Documents wrote:
    The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft
    memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source
    software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to
    these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were
    published by open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond in 1998.

    The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were
    originally leaked close to October 31 in different years.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents>

    Tuesday, 02 October 1998 @ 22:00:


    It seems like only yesterday.

    When Balmer was just a small boy... and not very sweaty.

    Penny candy were $0.03 each.

    Only Cher looks exactly the same.

    Paul

    Barbara Streissand had not only the looks but also the voice that
    literally hundreds of chest-pounding apes have tried to match



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  • From bad sector@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 15, 2026 17:49:57
    On 6/15/26 3:17 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:17:19 -0400, bad sector wrote:

    Barbara Streissand had not only the looks but also the voice that
    literally hundreds of chest-pounding apes have tried to match

    If you like large air cleaners...

    I wuz there for the voice



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  • From bad sector@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 06:20:46
    On 6/2/26 7:13 PM, Paul wrote:
    On Tue, 6/2/2026 5:00 PM, Halloween Documents wrote:
    The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft
    memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source
    software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to
    these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were
    published by open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond in 1998.

    The documents are associated with Halloween because many of them were
    originally leaked close to October 31 in different years.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents>

    Tuesday, 02 October 1998 @ 22:00:


    It seems like only yesterday.

    When Balmer was just a small boy... and not very sweaty.

    Penny candy were $0.03 each.

    Only Cher looks exactly the same.

    Paul


    How small a boy? I mean he never grew up. When he was born gas was 30
    cents and we washed the road gum off cars with it



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