when i saw the red border i thought the fake news was going to be "ticalc.org is hiring archivers"... so i guess they still might be... come on magnus, it's pretty hard to screw up archiving files, i'm sure you can find 4 or 5 people who could do a perfectly good job of it.

why doesn't ticalc just create a computer program which automaticially updates it?

think of the abuse that'd get.

each file also needs to be reviewed in one way or another (i don't know if they actually test each file, i doubt it), but i'm sure they at least read the description, and probably look at the filenames in the zip file.

The fact that the file queue is now at over 1000 files tells me that it's very likely that they *do* test every file. I could do it myself, with VTI.

Yeah.. that's funny, though, because earlier I heard that they used a computer program to give them an overall test to see if it's clean or not, and then they look further if it looks like it possibly could be a bad program... but that doesn't make sense. 1000 files can't all be profane and evil.

maybe the typing monkies are on strike and the file archivers have to run the BASH scripts themselvs rather than using a program on upload to ticalc...

I'm not on strike! What are you talking about?

guess the union action info got to me first...

I also heard that...

Yeah... Magnus was talking about it about 10 (?) news items back.

But this isn't fake!! The pending is up to one grand!! :)
For example, I uploaded some files in November that still haven't been put in the archives!! Noooooooo...

Yes, it is real... there ARE type-writing monkeys (like me).

And I'm a TYPERWITING BANANANA!!!
G'fah'h'h'hah!

And I am a type-writing Pogona vitticeps

The P. vitticeps resembles the above symbol.

I quote from one of your news articles:



3,000 Files
Posted on 17 January 1998, 00:00 GMT


The file archives section now contains over 3,000 files. Over the past three months we have added over 1,000 new files to the archives, an average of about 10 per day. In addition, many more are updated everyday. You can always count on us to have the very latest files, so check back here often.

you saved that? wow.

On top of the posts, between the years 1998-2000, there was a new news item almost every other day. What happened?

That's why we hired an editor for the news recently. It helps to have a newseditor--these things don't happen automatically--especially becuase someone deleted all the copies of the AI that posted the news before.

Well, that was an obfuscated sentence.
http://www.ioccc.org/main.html

"Obfuscated"? Hmm... go to the above web page. And btw, bad grammar. Its obfuscating.

Be quiet, you'll ruin my public image!!!

I know those two ideas didn't fit together at all, so don't tell me!!!