>From destiny at wco.com Thu Apr 23 16:01:03 1998
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:00:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Cassel <destiny at wco.com>
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Subject: "Men of the Century"
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Did we do this already? Here's the "Vote Linus for 'Man of the Century'
e-mail that's going around.)
(Hint: "Winston Churchill" has a slim lead over Mustafa Kemal Ataturk --
mostly because Turk fanatics are packing the ballot. So vote Winston if
you wanna thwart their plans...)
(And William Burroughs is cracking the top ten under "Entertainers and
Artists"... If I'd been taking this thing more seriously, maybe I
wouldn't have voted for "Linda McCartney".....)
Oh yeah. You can apparently vote an infinite number of times....
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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 17:16:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Sean M. Kelly" <smkelly at zombie.org>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel at vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Innocent1 <innocent at merconline.com>
Subject: OFFTOPIC: Linus for Man of the Century
The DALnet #Linux has started a movement to get Linus Torvalds voted as
Man of the Century. Their idea is to get a massive number of votes for
Linus, which would at least get the attention of Linux if nothign else.
They estimate that they need about 1 million votes to pull it off.
They've requested everybody to vote for Linus and to pass it along. The
catagory in which Linus is being placed also has a mention of Bill Gates,
so we've got some competition. If you would like more information, see the
URLs below.
Vote for Linus Torvalds:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/time100poll.html
Linus as Man of the Century Mailing List:
linusmotc-request at merconline.com
* Note: Please do not flame me or yell at me saying this does not belong
on the list because I am aware of that but thought this information had to
be passed along to those interrested and this is the easiest way of
contacting mass numbers of Linux users I could think of.
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[Destiny adds:
Here's the current tabulation...
LEADERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
Total
Percent
winston churchill
1354057
33.78
mustafa kemal ataturk
1302677
32.50
franklin roosevelt
480612
11.99
fidel castro
459278
11.45
vladimir lenin
115326
2.87
ronald reagan
76322
1.90
aung san suu kyi
67020
1.67
billy graham
31246
0.77
ENTERTAINERS AND ARTISTS
Total
Percent
charles aznavour
741775
20.45
elvis presley
690219
19.03
charlie chaplin
497137
13.70
john lennon
404613
11.15
rolf harris
213574
5.88
w n p barbellion
167618
4.62
safa bute
145028
3.99
william s burroughs
119380
3.29
BUILDERS AND TITANS
Total
Percent
richard rogers
623924
16.87
henry ford
543590
14.69
douglas macarthur
474760
12.83
bill gates
465135
12.57
howard hughes
351163
9.49
vehbi koc
340082
9.19
steve jobs
299764
8.10
murat arslan
205775
5.56
SCIENTISTS AND HEALERS
Total
Percent
enrico fermi
768892
20.14
jonas salk
743136
19.47
viktor hambardzumian
554103
14.51
milton friedman
383823
10.05
edward teller
323426
8.47
alan turing
308273
8.07
yasar nuri ozturk
287795
7.54
vannevar bush
119527
3.13
HEROES AND ADVENTURERS
Total
Percent
yuri gagarin
2065534
34.63
nelson mandela
1612532
27.04
mustafa kemal ataturk
1560635
26.17
che guevara
142721
2.39
g gordon liddy
95146
1.59
amelia earhart
89806
1.50
neil armstrong
79363
1.33
john galt
60988
1.02
Statistics updated every few
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