Fun_People Archive
2 May
Re: TEXT OF UNABOMB CASE LETTER RECEIVED BY N.Y. TIMES

Date: Tue,  2 May 95 01:49:16 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Re: TEXT OF UNABOMB CASE LETTER RECEIVED BY N.Y. TIMES

From: <James_Mullany@eidhub.state.nm.us>

Y'know, somewhere in the dim, dank reaches of my mind where live
forever the Useless Facts I seem to recall that the "A" in UNABOMB
referred to "airlines," stemming from the mad bomber targeting
airline offices early on. But my wildly active dream life precludes
my swearing to the veracity of this factoid.  yrs, Jim
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From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)

Actually, it's Unabomb, where 'un' is University, and
'a' is airline.

--keith
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From: chip@netcom.com (Chip Morningstar -- "Software Without Moving Parts")

Not to be pedantic, but I'll be pendantic.  It actually *is* UNABOMB.
The FBI investigators coined the name because the creep started out
BOMBing people associated with UNiversities and Airlines.
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From: Pat Parseghian <pep@research.att.com>

No, it really is unabomb.  Because he first targeted UNiversities
and Airlines.
                pep
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From: "John C. Randolph" <jcr@idiom.com>

Wayne got this one wrong.  It's the UNABOMBER.  The FBI came up with the
title because the initial targets were UNiversities and Airlines.

Doesn't Wayne even watch the news?

Sheesh!

-jcr
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From: Alice Smith <a-alices@microsoft.com> (Rho)

My understanding was that whatever Feds gave it that name did in fact
spell it UNABOMB because the bomber targeted UNiversities and Airlines.
 Did I just make that up?  I'm sure I heard it on NPR.
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From: Wayne Radinsky <waynerad@microsoft.com>


Oh, okay, maybe that's right...  I'd heard about it on NPR, too, and I
didn't see it spelled until today.  Which is why I was surprised by the
funny spelling.

© 1995 Peter Langston