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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:52:26 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54)
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>> we then digressed to labels on tuna fish cans -- yes, people around here
>> always use the "fish" in that expression, except when talking about fresh
>> tuna).
>
>Of course they do...so do I.
I sometimes wonder if I do. I sort of hope I don't. I don't
like the expression (which most people I know use), but I
bet I use it when I'm "not listening".

> And I can't help wondering if they were
>allowed to drink milk with tuna fish or any other fish....I grew up
>believing something really terrible would happen if you drank milk with
>seafood.
>ndh
Ha! Nancy is not Jewish. We drank milk with fish, but not with
*meat*! We drank soda pop with meat. To this day, I can't drink
milk with meat. I *can* eat meat and cheese together (e.g.,
lasagna), and I can drink milk with a ham sandwich, but not
with a roast beef sandwich. (Ham isn't "meat", of course; it's
just Chazerei.)

love, judith
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:48:57 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IRC
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> > Bernardykins has just set up a Clambake channel on IRC.  But nobody has
> > joined him yet. :-(
> >    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> How can I get there?  I've *missed* Bernard!

It depends on your system.  All I have to do to get on is enter 'irc'
at the prompt.  Actually I'm on a bunch of times right now.  I've got
to kill some ghost processes.  Bernard and I were both on IRC when QEMM
and TN3270 got into one of their usual fights and the computer froze.
So I got back on the channel as maynor (then changed that to nobody),
but the ghosts of natalie and bernard from previous sessions are still
there.  What a mess.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:19:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> hello.

Since, as things go, this <hello> is tacked onto a thread that I
started about five days ago and has long since lost its original
symbiosis of grief and joy, I feel that I must respond with:
*********************HELLO JOANIE****************************
--ggs (who has a story to tell, later)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:03:17 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: How's Adbam doing?
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1992, Evelyn wrote:
> We should be inviting Anne for Thanksgiving dinner.  Babies are a problem
> until they're out of the house and off on their own (about 18).

It was supposed to stop then?  How come nobody told me?
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:45:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Wiz of Oz is a SATANIC PLOT!

Ken Kweries:

  >Carol, run this by me again. The Wizard of Oz??? WHY?

The Wiz has been (and continues to be) soundly protested by
some rightwingers (including in a Chicago suburb) because it
teaches kids about witches and subverts *C*hristianity.
It's a form of creeping satanism.

Like Karl Popper said, the worse the logic, the more
interesting the conclusions.

Jim (But Glenda was a babe, and it enhanced her witching) Thomas
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 18:36:11 CDT
From:         Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: dreary weekend
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In article <WORDS-L%92072615412888@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> RUTH M RYAN
 <JSRMR%ALASKA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> says:
:                                                            I hope
: you won't get serious in any great hurry...

Somehow I doubt that you have very much to worry about.  We are
sometime crabby and sometimes kind...but never serious.
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:04:39 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Ohhhh, gif-less me...
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:52:44 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> So is the suggestion that all the filenames in /docs/words-l/... should
> be MSDOS-type names?  I can change them today if that's what people want.
> It will mean, of course, that the names will be less descriptive.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Not exactly - it's a little complicated :)  As you said, you can 'get'
a file to a suitable name (you have to - you've no choice) -- the ones
I suggested changing were the names *inside* the .uu files - especially
since the .uu files are really only helpful for people who have trouble
with networks in between msstate and their DOS PCs.

G
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:22:00 EDT
From:         "PLOTKIN, ALEC DAVID" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: CNN
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>Richard Blackwell is back on CNN. He's so cute, he makes me want to bomb Saddam
>all over again...

So, you bombed Saddam. What unit were you with and where did you go.
Our boys and girls in green and khaki had the fun.

>-abh




later

alec
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:34:34 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: <sigh>
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              92 11:27 am

> I thought Macs were famous for being user-friendly.  NOT!  I finally managed
> to wander into the correct silly picture to ftp something to the disk, but
> now I can't figure out how to see whether the file is really on the disk!
> Why doesn't this machine speak in normal words rather than in pictures???
> What's wrong with words??

	You probably saved it to the same folder as the ftp program is
located in.  Use Find File under the File menu to search for it.  I usually
save all files I'm working on to the desktop, then put them in appropriate
files when I'm done with them.  Then of course they get backedup and
deleted..

Czarina
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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:36:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject: re: hurrmph
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>I think i have strep throat, and i can hardly talk,
>and i signed on to irc to see if there was anyone to
>play wiff, and there was no one.
>
>i guess i'll just go to bed.
>
>
>jenna who was all set to impersonate tushar again.

Oh, Jenna, I hope it's not strep!  I'm very susceptible, and I know
what torture it can be (I hope I don't get it just by reading about
it - it's possible, given the number of times I've had it in my
life!).  I hope you feel better.

The last time I had it, my doctor gave me a shot of penicillin,
rather than a prescription to take for 10 days.  It was wonderful -
it knocked me out for about 14 hours, but when I got up, I felt great
- no soreness, no sickness - I actually felt healthy.
(of course, he also made me sit in his waiting room for 20 minutes
after the shot, just in case of a reaction, since that's a pretty big
dose - that part is a little scary)

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:58:29 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Looking for help w/ tact
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> How about, "Well Bob, with anyone else that comment you made yesterday
> about <student>'s looks would be taken as condescendingly sexist, but
> you're such a good looking guy I just can't hold it against you"...

First of all, Graham, he made the comment in a letter of recommendation
to someone else who was appalled, and, being my friend, thought I should
know so I can prevent him from embarrassing our institution in the
future.  Second of all, this would *also* be inappropriate as well as
inaccurate.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:46:20 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Looking for help w/ tact...
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>
> How about, "Well Bob, with anyone else that comment you made yesterday
> about <student>'s looks would be taken as condescendingly sexist, but
> you're such a good looking guy I just can't hold it against you"...
>
> G

But what if Bob's ugly and knows it?
D
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:20:14 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Goodwill
              29 Jul 1992 15:07:03 EDT from <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

Don, why are you worried about the Salvation Army opening up a store
in your area?

Puzzled
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:37:52 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Manuals and Such
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> > that elm doesn't read my .mailrc aliases.  I just had to readdress this
> > to words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu instead of my usual alias 'words'.
>
> Just a guess (don't know elm) but could there be a ".elmrc"?
>
> failing that, have you tried "man elm"?

'man elm' contains very little.  I've found that 'mail fwp' yields much
more info. :-)   Elm does have its own alias directory, altho not .elmrc.
I may play with it some more tonight.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:33:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      dead afternoon
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I don't know about the rest of you, but the reason I've not said much
on the list this afternoon is because I had to do mucho editing this
afternoon on the Tech Handbook...If I only had *one* draft with
comments on it, it'd be much easier...but trying to work from 4 huge
continuously-paged-drafts is too much. Carol and Ken, does it ever
get better?  Do either of you have some modicum of editorial control?
Are you rolling on the floor laughing while you're reading this?

--Adam/LH

ALT-F5, Generate, Generate...WAIT..F10 to save..SHIFT-F7, 1,
Y...wait...restock paper tray mid-way..wait..wait..done.
aaaarrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:44:02 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 13:27:00 LCL, Carol_Carmick@beav.intersolv.com wrote:
>      Zinc did blow chow in the living room this morning

Captain Beefheart lyrics perchance?

G
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:12:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Why is Graham a wimp?
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>You know, it's interesting to me that Dan Quayle said a few years ago
>that if his wife were raped he would have her carry the resulting child
>to term--but now he says if his daughter were raped that she could have
>an abortion. Hmmm....if I were Marilyn I'd be giving my relationship w/
>Dan a good look.

     But he's not saying that anymore.  Now Marilyn says they would
     make their 13-year-old daughter (who must be mortified at all
     this public discussion of her probably theoretical sex life)
     carry the baby to term.

     It's a measure of the debasement of the debate about abortion
     that Quayle caught a ration of crap for saying "I would support
     my daughter no matter what she decided," when those are easily
     the most sane and loving words I've ever heard from DQ's lips.
     What does Operation Rescue expect him to say -- "I would throw
     the little trollop out in the snow"?

     Frankly, I don't know if I could be as sanguine.  If my
     hypothetical 13-year-old daughter got pregnant, I would be
     inclined to march her down to the clinic no matter how she felt
     about it.  I'm not proud of that from a civil liberties
     standpoint, but I think babies have no business having babies.

     Carol, mud-wrestling with her values
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:08:53 CDT
From:         Pale Face <UC324698%MIZZOU1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      social security numbers

A friend of mine was giving me the business in a discussion of this very
topic the other day and he says he has information that says you can use
a 90X-XX-XXXX or a 91X-XX-XXXX prefix and any other numbers and the
people have to take it, ie you are trying to cash a check and they ask
for your SSN, he says its like dummy numbers set up by the feds and valid
to use, very confusing.
 and inre to the car thing, splurge a little, get a Mercedes 450SL (sliver)
convertible!! its a little more than $15K but, hey, you only live once!
 but if you live in a bigger city, you better buy a 'CLUB' for it, too
   JS
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:19:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Speech codes

>Bill undoubtedly recalls a similar problem at NIU awhile
>back when a fraternity staged a tacky, tasteless skit lampooning
>blacks. They were nailed by our administration for it, and they chose
>to submit to some organizational discipline and "sensitivity
> .  .  .  .
>be noted that the bureaucrats subverting the First Amendment weren't
>"liberals," but middle-road types on both sides who sacrificed
>Constitutional principles on the altar of organizational expediency.
>I'm glad to see Bill backing his radiclib siblings on this issue.
>Jim (down with all speech codes) Thomas

I remember the incident well.  I let loose at the provost over the
incident at a faculty lunch.  He did not like being criticized on the
point.  At the time, a play was in rehearsal in the theatre department,
called Execution of Justice, which could reasonably be called anti-Catholic
(whether it is isn't important).  I knew about it because my wife was the
director's assistant.  Anyway, in an effort to pin the provost down, I
asked him whether he would be willing to ban the play from campus if
Catholics on campus complained.  (The skit Jim refers to was brought to
the provost's attention by complaints from black students.)  He refused
to answer the question.  The next day, the provost called the director of
the play to warn her that complaints had been made to him about the content
of the play.  I found out because she told the whole cast and crew, she
was so happy.  I asked another professor who was at the lunch whether my
remarks could conceivably have been misunderstood.  His response was no,
because I had ragged on the provost for several minutes demanding an
explanation for censorship on campus.  Our conclusion was that the provost,
now president of the Univ. of North Dakota, is an idiot, but then we
already knew that.  By the way, Teddy Kennedy was greeted very politely at
Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.  Jeanne Kirkpatrick was not safe at
Harvard.  So it should be that Jim is siding with the right on this one.
                            Bill Sjostrom
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:33:10 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Why is Graham a wimp?
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> >You know, it's interesting to me that Dan Quayle said a few years ago
> >that if his wife were raped he would have her carry the resulting child
> >to term--but now he says if his daughter were raped that she could have
> >an abortion. Hmmm....if I were Marilyn I'd be giving my relationship w/
> >Dan a good look.
>
>      But he's not saying that anymore.  Now Marilyn says they would
>      make their 13-year-old daughter (who must be mortified at all
>      this public discussion of her probably theoretical sex life)
>      carry the baby to term.

Whatever Marilyn says...I didn't hear him retract.  The woman who
interviewed him the first time was about 12 years old.  He's really
changed his tune as his daughter has grown up!

Karen
who agrees w/ Doris that adoption is an option that needs to be consid-
ered.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:22:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: Quail Season
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>Matters touching ones children can bring out the nobility in anyone.

     Unfortunately, they can also bring out the hypocrite and
     cross-burner.  Parents opposing sex education and giving
     contraceptives to minors... parents picketing their child's
     AIDS-infected classmate... parents demanding that _The Wizard of
     Oz_ be taken off the library shelves... all of these
     controversies have the moralistic shrillness that comes when
     people use their children to justify their own prejudices.

     Carol
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:31:22 CDT
From:         Pale Face <UC324698%MIZZOU1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      a chess board?

Stephen, you better tell Mr. Rosen to move dat dere bishop! That was
 one of the more interesting posts I've seen on here, is there some kind
 of hidden, mystic symbolism in relation to WORDS-L?

  JS
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:08:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Sexual harassment

>No, the student didn't see the letter; she waived her right.  So,
>sexual harassment is not an issue.  His behavior towards students is
>okay, no problem there.
>
>Karen
>who agrees that this student is quite startlingly attractive.

What struck me about this--aside for the inappropriateness of the
comment--was that the guy is probably wrong about the end result.
Now, I don't want to blame Sugita-san for my inability to learn
Japanese, but I must say I spent more time in the classroom thinking
"what an incredibly cute chick" (or words to that effect) than I did
thinking about how to use wa and ga.

Michael E. Macmillan (macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:48:02 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...

They have 6 different crews working on the phones all over campus.
I guess AT&T decided that it had better come through on fixing the
phones, or else the university would have spread the word (and maybe
the business). ;)

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:31:20 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      WP
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> Seems to be with the 5/31/91 release of 5.1.  Last summer, when I was
> scrambling to beat my deadline, I noticed that about 10 percent of
> the Table of Contents entries had the wrong page numbers on
> them...yarggggh...many calls to WP support later, they said they'd
> send me the latest release.  I've not had any problems with it so
> far.

Thanks.  Haven't gotten as far as TOC.  Ours is some early 1990 release
I think.  But at least now I know to bug Chet.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:06:43 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gopher
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> once, with poor results.  OS/2 is good at grabbing control away
> from whatever is running (say the solitaire game or Word Perfect)
> and giving it to the comm program for long enough to handle that
> byte, and then returning quickly so that you don't even notice.

So is Desqview.  I can merrily copy files in DOS or write WP documents
or whatever while PCPLUS is downloading something in XMODEM, for example.
Or at least I could until something went haywire in my downloading --
which has nothing to do with DV -- or I don't think it does.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:25:43 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Apophasis
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> Wonder what that was all about?   Is it possible to gopher this now
> and see?  That might be the post where I revealed the climax of Tom

The status of WORDS-L in gopher is uncertain at this point.  It was taking
up lots of space in relation to how much anybody was using it.  Frank noted
that only a couple of people per week used the WORDS-L index and that almost
without exception it was to look up something that had been said very
recently.

Stuff from a long time ago wasn't in gopher anyway.  It went back only to
last Easter weekend.  Akio's tape is in Frank's office, though.  What to
do with it remains a question in view of the recent list paranoia.  Frank
didn't want to contribute to the spy hysteria by putting the tape archives
in ftp space.  He can correct me if I'm misrepresenting him here.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:25:56 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Babies and SS Numbers
              30 Jul 1992 09:23:24 -0500 from <harwood@TENET.EDU>

Nancy,
  It's a new Federal rule that all children have SS Numbers.  This is to
keep people from claiming nonexistant dependents on the tax forms.  I
read that the number of children declared went down tremendously the first
year this was in effect.

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:19:30 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: What's with everyone today?
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              92 3:54 pm

> Why is everyone, including me, down in the dumps today?  I'm getting
> more mail from Causerie than I am from this group!

	I didn't think quiet equated with depressed!  My Gopod, I'll
have to start blathering and running on at the mouth now lest someone
dials the Suicide Hotline on me...

	Well, I dunno what's up with everyone else, but I'm in hyper-
production mode at work.

Rita
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