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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> As you see, the startup code forcefully resets inhibit-startup-message 
> after it loads site-start.el, to prevent site administrators from doing 
> exactly what you wanted to do.

Seems a little heavy handed, but maybe it will cut down on the
traffic here, since users will get a glimpse of the splash screen
even if evil admins attempt to thwart it...

In my case, my only user is me....