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A User Friendly waiting to happen   
Thursday, February 24 2005 @ 08:44 PM CST
By David L. Farquhar

Your new customer service manager's name is Dev Null. Please refer all further communication to Dev Null, who will handle your matter speedily and appropriately.

Or something like that.

It sounds just believable enough that lots of people will fall for it. The problem is getting anyone with Unix familiarity to keep a straight face while saying it.

Coincidentally, BOFH fans will also know that /dev/null is an incredibly fast backup device.
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A User Friendly waiting to happen
Authored by: keith721 on Saturday, February 26 2005 @ 10:43 PM CST
Helen Wait is gonna be peeved you stole her joke.

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