Newsgroups: alt.discordia, alt.religion.kibology, alt.illuminati
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 10 Mar 1995 16:38:02 GMT
Subject: Re: LONGEST KNOWN PALINDROME

s...@course3.harvard.edu (Michael Soss) writes:

> Not bad, but Mitch Poplack posted (a while ago) a better one.
> Here it is:

> A man, a plan, a caret, ..., a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a
> canal--Panama!

Well, I don't know who this Mitch Poplack is, but that isn't his
palindrome, it's mine.  I discovered it in 1984.

When I let it be posted to the net, I was identified as the author.
But there seem to be a some people out there who have some objection
to giving credit where it is due, and they cut my name off it and
repost it.  I consider this to an objectionable behavior, and I ask
that people who observe it let the offenders know of my objection.

So please don't post it without citing me as its author.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil