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From: richard@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: How many times do you "sync"?
Message-ID: <377@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:32:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 07:32:22 1984
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>>  I sync 3 times--4 if there's real important files.  The reason
>>  should be obvious: 3 is the number of the trinity, 4 of the
>>  quartering of the earth into active and passive principles.  Geez,
>>  superstition has nothing to do with it.

One should obviously never sync 6 times, and in the most dire cases,
sync 7 times.  For those of you not into quasi-religious numerology,
forget it.

			from the confused and bleeding fingertips of
				...!sequent!richard