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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: ** CALL FOR DISCUSSION: talk.troubles **
Message-ID: <482@icdi10.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 89 05:33:24 GMT
References: <1989Oct30.115233.19455@rpi.edu> <4259@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <1989Oct30.231803.16742@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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In article <1989Oct30.231803.16742@rpi.edu> fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes:
>In <4259@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> sartin@hplabs.hp.com (Rob Sartin) writes:
>
>Also, to Joe Zitt (jzitt@awd.ibm.com ??), could you explain your reasoning
>as to why the group should be called talk.kvetch?

Probably a take-off on the German word Kwatsch. Meaning a lot of nonsense or 
something similar. Perhaps kvetch is the jiddish equivilant?
fr



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