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From: abw@bucrsb.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: FTP defn of SGML
Summary: Cobbler's children
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Date: 29 Sep 90 21:56:25 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.174222.22487@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <BZS.90Sep27170601@world.std.com> <1990Sep28.134332.24815@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <ENAG.90Sep28195153@hild.ifi.uio.no>
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In article <ENAG.90Sep28195153@hild.ifi.uio.no> enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
+In article <1990Sep28.134332.24815@terminator.cc.umich.edu> jwh@boston.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
+they do not
+even have machine-readable versions in-house, and that drafts are most
+often type-set anew for each version.  The same goes for CCITT, which
+is another paper-based standardizing body in the field of electronic
+information.  Amazing.

The cobbler's children often go barefoot...

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