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From: gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it? - Haven't got the slightest
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.210358.6885@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 21:03:58 GMT
References: <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <1990Jul21.083046.13075@squirrel.mh.nl> <1990Jul21.174535.8281@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1092@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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In article <1092@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> p576spz@mpirbn.UUCP (S.Petra Zeidler) writes:
> In article <1990Jul21.174535.8281@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
> >Hey, news is ASCII-based, written in english-speaking countries for
> >english-speaking readers.
> 
> I don't think so at all; if I read the authors' names and origins, it seems to
> me that no mean part of postings to the world-wide newsgroups is NOT written
> in English-spoken countries. 

Steve was not talking about postings; he meant that the software was written
by English-speakers.