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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 18 October 2006 21:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:25:40PM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote:
> >> In the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TANSTAAFL definition,
> >> http://billdennis.net/heinlein/tanstaafl.htm is a bad link now; it
> >> points to an ad site.
>
> 	* acronyms/index.html (TANSTAAFL):  Point to wikipedia instead of
> 	dead billdennis.net domain.

Dave,

Thanks for the patch, but I found the wikipedia article rather dry and
unappetizing.  The Bill Dennis essay I used to point to was much better.
I'm going to look for another good TANSTAAFL essay -- in the meantime,
I've redirected the link to the Internet Archive snapshot of the essay.
	Igor
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