Newsgroups: rec.humor.d
From: hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 17 Jan 92 17:32:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Palindromes : a compilation

I wrote:

>>>A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, ..., a bater, a canal--Panama.

>>It is not the longest palindrome on record.  Also, I discovered it.
>>Do not distribute it without my name.

a...@nelson.questar.mn.org (Alan L. Nelson) replies:

>Hey, wait a minute.  This WHOLE article was posted back in 1990 by my
>best friend, Billy-Bob "Bubba" Kornschucker.
>Please don't post this again without giving the correct attribution,

I hope Mr. Nelson thinks he is quite funny; I hope so because that is
preferable to his being a liar.  But just so there is no confusion, I
found that palindrome in 1984.  I don't know of any Usenet appearance
before I posted it in May, 1990.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil