Most of us know, and some have even read, the original announcement of a new programming language called Python back in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. But did you know that shortly before that Guido wrote a rather apologetic response to being flamed about non-source posting to alt.sources.d:

OK, hey, I surrender! I won't ever post non-source to alt.sources again! But don't send me any more flames. How many self-appointed policemen does alt.sources have? Are there any other rules I should be aware of? I am about to post half a megabyte of source; wouldn't want to be flamed for *that*...

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Well, I didn't.