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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.flame
Subject: Re: (VERY) Long dead subjects, was (Re: Signature files (LONG))
Keywords: KLANG KLANG KLANG Cymru am Byth
Message-ID: <19805@gryphon.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 23:44:39 GMT
References: <19611@gryphon.COM> <1989Sep11.125116.18148@gec-mi-at.co.uk>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1989Sep11.125116.18148@gec-mi-at.co.uk> clark@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Peter Clark) writes:
>In article <19611@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.
>Repetition can sometimes be a good thing.

Not in this case, bub.

>>And todays homework assignment: why is it bad form to POST a message
>>telling somebody to MAIL something rather than POST it ?
>>
>The point being, this is a *WORLD*WIDE*PUBLIC*NOTICE*BOARD*

Good! You figured it out!  A-  (You would have got an A it you'd
mailed it though.

>Todays lesson folks:
>Your posting will be stored for indefinite lengths of time on various systems
>around the world, and will not just earn you a short lived immortality.
>These flames don't always burn out quickly.

Sigh. It's things like this that make me not surprised at the notion
that the only Welsh I remember translates roughly to: ``Asshole
to the English''.


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