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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Re: The death of USENET
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Date: 13 Jun 88 14:08:42 GMT
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campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) wrote: 
->I suspect that ihnp4 could have
->folded up its tent silently and no one would have noticed.

True, except that there are many net maxi-zum-dweebs out there who
blindly list ihnp4 in ~/.signature (but, of course, most of these don't
read the news.all groups, so they don't know that ihnp4 is headed for
the history books, where it'll snuggle up next to mit-multics and
oz.ai.mit.edu)

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