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From: dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Charming Typo
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 15:04:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 15:04:03 1985
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Years ago I read an article about "Joe Blow, Therapist".
Of course Joe Blow wasn't the guy's name, but I don't remember
what it was. It was a very long name and that's important
to the story. Mr. Blow's name got on a mailing list .
He got a letter with a computer generated mailing label.
The label program was designed to wrap around if one of the
lines of the address was too long. Mr Blow's name was too 
long so the label started out:

                  Joe Blow, The
                      rapist

Mr Blow was quite upset about this. According to the article,
Mr Blow sued and won.