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Re: [LUG] new year party thing on IRC

 

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Rob Beard wrote:
> paul sutton wrote:
>> Neil Stone wrote:
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>>> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> We are trying to see how many people can join us on the lug irc
>>>>>> channel
>>>>>> this evening and stay up till tomorrow morning (new year).
>>>>> That does strike me as somewhat dedicated to the cause, however I'll
>>>>> be at Brixham beach, setting some fireworks off and drinking hot
>>>>> chocolate...
>>>> So our 9th annual new year visit to Brixham went off with a bang! Our
>>>> fireworks were good (despite the wind!) - lots to see all round
>>>> Torbay -
>>>> a much better show than last year's rainy credit crunch one.
>>>>
>>>> Nice spiced hot chocolate too :)
>>>>
>>>> Time for bed... Happy New Year, everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Gordon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> *wakes up, scratches self, visits facilities, realises misses 00:00:00
>>> 01/01/10, shrugs, reads mail, heads to bed*
>>
>>
>> ah,  i managed to send a mail to the list and it arrived at my end
>> with the time stamp 00:00 on 1/1/10
>>
>>
>>
>> happy new year
>>
>>
>> paul
> So you didn't have it pre-written to send on Big Ben's first bong?
> 
> Nah, that's too easy, instead I bet you wrote a simple bash script and
> set it up as a cron job and synced your time with uk.pool.ntp.org.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

cron job

@yearly echo Happy New Year | mail list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -s "New Year"

simples
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