From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-07-01T05:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Threading work properly?

> From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:17 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Does Threading work properly?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:07:14AM +0900, kingsley@icecode.org wrote:
> > require \'net/telnet\'
> > require \'thread\'
>
> Why do you keep putting these backslashes in? It means your code can't be
> pasted in and run :-(

I think it's his mail client; IIRC I asked him about that some time ago.
Very irritating and unnecessary, IMO.