Alex Martelli is off the net for a few days :-(

[Gerhard Häring]

Peter Hansen wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Gerhard Haering wrote:
>> 
>> * Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> [2002-07-22 12:11 +0200]:
>> > Some construction workers have severed his phone and internet lines.
>> > Expect him back in a few days, not a few hours. :-(
>> 
>> Laura, don't lie. I saw you sneek in at night to cut off his cables in order to
>> make him work productively again ;-)
> 
> Ouch!  Is "cut off his cables" a euphemism for something very painful?

Well, I supposed that Laura only cut off his internet and phone lines
and is now framing the construction workers. As bots don't feel pain -
they even don't need any sleep, as Alex's recent message mentioning 40
hours weeks shows - I don't think anybody would attack them
/physically/. Messing with the bot's software is much more fun. That's
an interesting topic btw., I'll put it on the agenda of the next
meeting of the P