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@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ I added the name of someone I knew personally to the Clacks Overhead.
Going postal, Ch 4.
In the book *Going Postal* by Sir Terry Pratchett,
there is a system of sephamores invented by Robert Dearheart across the contenent that serves as a loose analogy for the modern internet.
there is a system of sephamores invented by Robert Dearheart across the continent that serves as a loose analogy for the modern internet.
These are called the Clacks.
In the Clacks system, messages are preceeded by headers roughly giving instructions on how to route the message.
In the Clacks system, messages are preceded by headers roughly giving instructions on how to route the message.
In particular to the story, three header letters are important:
**G**: Send the message on\
@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ causing it to bounce along the network forever, memorializing his son for as lon
On the 12th of march, 2015, Sir Terry Pratchett passed away.
The same day, on the reddit announcement thread about his death,
somone [posted](https://reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2ysv26/sir_terry_has_gone_for_the_long_walk_across_the/cpcmru1/) a quote from going postal explaining John Dearhearts name living on in the overhead, along with the signoff **GNU Terry Pratchett**.
someone [posted](https://reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2ysv26/sir_terry_has_gone_for_the_long_walk_across_the/cpcmru1/) a quote from going postal explaining John Dearhearts name living on in the overhead, along with the signoff **GNU Terry Pratchett**.
2 days later, [somone](https://old.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/cpcvz46/) posted instructions on how to make Apache send the `X-Clacks-Overhead` header,
2 days later, [someone](https://old.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/cpcvz46/) posted instructions on how to make Apache send the `X-Clacks-Overhead` header,
and others quickly chimed in with how to do it for a myriad of web servers, email servers, email clients, browsers and web frameworks.
A [browser extention](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnu_terry_pratchett/) for viewing `X-Clacks-Overhead` headers
A [browser extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gnu_terry_pratchett/) for viewing `X-Clacks-Overhead` headers
and [website](http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/) explaining the header and how to set and view it were quickly setup.
Breifly, a fair few websites sported the header,
Briefly, a fair few websites sported the header,
though the number soon reduced, and it has been a few years since I have seen it in any websites other than my own.
## The Clacks in my homelab
@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ a radio station that we listened to every day when we lived in Fargo.
And now, Dean Hansen, who had been a fixture of my entire life,
a kind, generous, and joyful man, is there too.
He and his family always welcomed me,
he would drop everything to help somone who needed it.
he would drop everything to help someone who needed it.
It is likely that if I had not written this,
the Clacks Overhead in my sites would have sat there,