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Are you (we) sure which Abigail is being quoted? There was another Abigail of told-em-so fame.
(That might've been the reference (above) to the scary devil monastery)
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Re^4: OT: Why Hackers dont do well in Corporate World
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2005 at 06:20 UTC
    Good point. I had not heard of the other Abigail.

    Doing some research, I found this source for the quote, which makes it seem that it is an abigail with a delanet email. Googling for that gives me this Abigail, which suggests that it really was the other Abigail who is being referred to.

    So I was clearly wrong. Live and learn.

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      So I was clearly wrong.

      It looks to me that you were right the first time - but wrong when you said you were clearly wrong ;) How's that for irony?

      A quick super search for posts by abigail-ii containing "foad" returns Re: Generating Regular Expressions and Re: Deobfuscation for fun and profit, which have links to foad.org/~abigail. One is a japh talk from 2001, the other is a program to generate regular expressions. Re: The quest for pure perl shows a cpan search for Regexp::Common and lists the author's email address as abigail@foad.org.

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        Irony is so ironic... :-)
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        Wait, so Abigail is www.foad.org/~abby and www.foad.org/~abigail is the _other_ Abigail? (Or is it the other way 'round?) (It *must* be a plot!)

        At least one home page has a picture, so we know which Abigail she isn't.

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