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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:33:12 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
Comments: To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              14 Sep 92 03:33:07 +0000. <9209141327.AA15982@sics.se>

  Ruth explains:

  >Hmmm - 14*3 = 42, and 5*14 = 70, and 42+70= 112   14*8 = 80+32 = 112

  All is revealed. It just didn't occur to me to interpret "and" as
a summation instruction. I thought it had something to do with
Indian mathematics, which is well known in mathematical circles to
be based on mysterious insights into the infinite, manifesting themselves
in enormous and impenetrable formulas.

>That you can't determine the value of either x or y?  That they're pretty
>meaningless?  That multiplication should be practiced only by those old enough
>to know better?

  See a later message for the surprising answer.
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Too busy to play Words-l
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:30:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU's message of Sun, 13 Sep 1992 13:19:14 -0400

Rod posts this from a college student:


      3. Use this space to tell something about yourself.

      I whant to be a physical theropist when I get out of
     Salem State. I injoy sports, I play Basketball, and
     shoot riffles. I'm on the Mass. State riffle team. But
     I'am hopeing to do well at Salem.

   They shoot riffles, don't they?

	--Rod

Geez, Rod, I can't decide whether to laugh or cry...excuses for poor
spelling are fine in their own time and place but, *this* from a college
student?!!  

//anne, who isn't really surprised, just saddened since she finds it more
pathetic than amusing//
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:57:58 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re: Tongue Movement)
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> >on the front of the alveolar ridge for "ate" -- not quite post-dental,
> >but definitely heading in that direction -- and on the back of the alveolar
> >ridge for "put."
>
> Aha! Post-dental for 'ate' and *front of alveolar ridge for 'put'!

So my tongue is probably less than an inch behind yours in its activity.
Interesting.  Wonder if there's an article in this...

> So does mine when I'm saying it that way. I love articulation, and
> coarticulation!!!!

This is much more fun than the work I'm supposed to be doing.  And I'm
NOT a phonologist.  Maybe that's why it's fun.  Maybe the fun would be
spoiled if I knew what I was talking about.

Now that the rain has stopped and the ground is therefore softer than
usual, I should probably go buy some clumps of Asiatic jasmine to plant
in a place I'm trying to wipe out the grass on and get stuff going that
doesn't have to be cut.

It's ok.  I don't think we have any brand-new subscribers to gross out
by shifting from phonology to jasmine.  And I'm in a list-babbling mood --
as an evasion of work.  Jasmine-planting would also be an evasion of work,
of course, but at least it would offer useful results.

Don't forget to watch MSU get trounced by Texas on ESPN tonight.  It starts
at some weird time like 6:37, according to our local newspaper.  That's
CDT.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:40:17 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58
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Posted on 7 Sep 1992 at 11:15:01 by torkel@SICS.SE
>  Well, so is Jeeves dependent on Bertie! By the way, although Jeeves can
>also butler away with the best of them, he is, in Bertie's employ, not a
>butler, but a gentleman's personal gentleman.

I knew that he wasn't a butler, but I left it because I couldn't remember
what it was called, even though I still need one.  But I think that's why
I blanked--I'm not a a gentleman.

But--Jeeves is not a mindless twit.  Bertie is.  Jeeves could get another
job in a minute, but chooses not to--how is he dependent on Bertie?

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:12:52 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re: To
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> Natalie, there are phonologists and phoneticians turning in
> their graves as you write. Phonologists very seldom sully their
> hands w/ phones, they are concerned w/ phonological systems.
> Phoneticians deal w/ the dirty data of real speech. More phonologists
> are starting to look at phonetic data, though, which I think is a
> positive trend.

I know that phoneticians deal with matters like articulatory, auditory,
and acoustic phonetics and that phonologists deal with phonological
systems, but I still contend that the term "phonology" includes
phonetics.  Let them squirm in their graves.  Certain dialectologists
and sociolinguists squirm when I say that what I do is dialectology/
sociolinguistics.  I don't mind their squirming.  I think their
arguments about the terms are for the most part silly.

Final score:  MSU 28  Texas 10.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:13:12 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Deconstruction

>Picked up a new word in IRC the other day, maybe you all have already
>seen it: Rofling.

I have seen it here on words-l. As a verb. Several times.

>                                             I love it, a true
>neologism, not based on any ancient languages, instantly sensible to
>anyone clued to the net.scene, witty, inventive, so very.

I can only say "huh" at this sudden outburst.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:44:27 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Family Tree

Almost missed this, since I have set up mail to kill all postings which have
"<ts>" anywhere inside.

>Eeeeennntt!!  Bigamy is prohibited under Indian civil law.  You're probably
>thinking about Islamic religious code, which permits it.
>
>...
>
>rashmi

I tried to think of any Muslim man I know who has more than one wife, and
you know what, I couldn't come up with a single one! It's true, I swear it!

I know many Muslim guys from my school days and last I heard of them the poor
blokes were having enormous difficulty getting even one wife.

Ah, but you need to be my age to appreciate the sadness in this.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:08:55 U
From:         Anne <harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Stop me before I eat more
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Help! I'm trapped inside a box of Ferrara Pan jawbreakers and must eat my way
out!
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:24:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@WILD.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Zen
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Posted on 11 Sep 1992 at 16:03:41 by Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366
>>Having trouble with humor today?

>Nope, just the usual problem w/ blatant ignorance I always have.

>Karen

No blatant ignorance, just a joke. But you are not laughing so don't worry
about it.
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:24:46 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Over-the-counter language
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> successful.  Maybe there's a difference between prescribing the
> past and prescribing a change.  Maybe?

Prescribing the past?  What are we talking about?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:15:02 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tongue Movement
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Posted on 5 Sep 1992 at 12:44:27 by Natalie Maynor
>Reply to Message of Sat, 05 Sep 92 11 from Rest of header flushed:

What a lovely thing to call me!:)

>But it would have to move from the alveolar ridge to between the teeth.
>That's a pretty good slide.

Americans don't all use the alveolar ridge; there's a good deal of variation.
My t's tend to be pretty much 'post-dental'.  I've been sitting here saying
t-words to myself, and my tongue is definitely much further forward for
/front vowel + t/ than for /back vowel + t/.  My 'ate' and 'eighth' are in
the same place.

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:06:29 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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> > ndh (who is absolutely delighted that it NOT a school day)
>                                         ^^^^^^
> (and is obviously regressing in language skills!)
> ndh

But it *not* a school day!  No regression of language skills here.  You
expressed the *feeling* perfectly.
Doris
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Re: Hopefully
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 06:09:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> writes:

>On Fri, 11 Sep 1992, Judith O Wagner wrote:

>> use of the word "hopefully."  Who better to ask than you folks?

>Because it's used incorrectly so often. Now, people often say "hopefully

Hee.

The worst are the grammar-Nazi wannabes.

To wit:

GNW:  Ooh, I just hate when someone uses "hopefully" wrong.
ME:   Hee.
GNW:  What's so funny?
ME:   Oh, nothing.

RICHH
--I feel good
--I feel well
--Stop, you're both right.
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: A strange find
Date: 12 Sep 1992 05:34:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Maybe the "strange find" has something to do with the ghost of
>Agnes.
Maybe the bird was aftr that fine white powder blowing around in your 
apartment, Torkel.  Have you ever inhaled that stuff?:-)  Maybe the Swedish
equivalent of the DEA would like to hear about this stuff....  What exactly
*is* that white stuff?

>--ggs (beginning to get the memory back....)
You'd better!   We've been on tenterhooks long enough!  Did the transvestite
buy you a vegemite sandwich?

Ruth
who does not come from a land Down Under

-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:46:17 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: network mail addressing problem
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		UUCP routes all addresses explicitly.  a!b!c!user sends the
	mail to a who recognizes that it has to be forwarded to b (and should
	know how) who forwards it to c where user lives.  The routes are built
	from a map somewhere that probably has brown connected to many places.
	Brown might also act as a gateway from UUCP to Internet.

That's only true if a, b, and c are all uucp sites.  If any of them
are real net sites, they can use sneaky address-rewriting rules in
sendmail.cf which can mangle the address to route it any way they
like - for instance, if they recognise the 'c' part, they throw
away a!b and try tp route mail to 'user@c.uucp' directly.  This is
why nodenames have to be unique, though in the uucp world with bang
paths they weren't always so in the past and this caused major
problems.

G
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:28:32 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Something old, something new
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

Interesting questions.  Obviously the courts have to agree about
specific definitions.  Ideally, everybody who may be affected by the
rulings should know what those definitions are.  I guess there should
be some kind of official dictionary of all terms that might be used in
legal proceedings, that the official meanings should be as close as is
practical to the most commonly agreed upon meanings of those terms in
the real world, and people should be made aware of the availability of
the legal dictionary in public libraries etc.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     annoyed because the new program is arced and she seems to have the
     wrong version of arce.com --- why doesn't everybody just stick to
     pkzip...     and who is about to suffer major attacks of guilt over
     lack of work accomplished today...
Sure
Happy
It's
Thursday
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:50:23 EDT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: network mail addressing problem
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:57:18 EDT, mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU wrote:
> what is a bang path.?
Just follow this trail little girl...
                                    hop
                                       !
                                        skip
                                            !
                                             jump
                                                 !
                                                  graham    <Bang!>
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:57:09 EDT
From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      movin' woes
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Remind me, the next time i ask advice on moving
to a bad part of town, NOT TO DO IT.

i know, i can hear abh "I told ya so".

first night there, car window broken, stereo
stolen. I'm convinced it was being installed right
next door the next day.  Second night there was so
loud we got about 1 hour of sleep.
the oven doesn't work, we had to go away for the
whole weekend so the landlord could finish
the floors, the kitties hate it and hide under unpacked
boxes, pleading with us to move.

and the lady downstairs does so much laundry that the only time
we can get a shower in is at about 4 am.

hurrumph.

a very very crabby jenna who had to drive in from the other side
of town with no radio.
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:17:47 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Curious, Graham, that you persist in calling disinterested a synonym
> for unbiased.  Certainly the meanings are similar, but one can easily
> imagine (say) a judge who is not disinterested but who manages to
> remain unbiased.  Likewise one who is biased even though disinterested.

That crossed my mind as I was using "unbiased" as a synonym.  (It may be
that I used it before Graham did.)  But I decided not to bring up that
point since it would lead to a new front:  if there is no other good way
to say "disinterested," shouldn't we fight for the distinction?  Etc.
I was getting tired of the topic (as I said earlier, I have a short
attention-span) and didn't want to get into that new front.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:58:46 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Bill's Life
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>that I was the only conservative out here.  I didnt see ahb's message
>until after sending mine.  It is great to know that the academic world
>isnt quite so liberal as it is made out to be.


AHB???? Well I <never> in all my life!

Freshman, right?

-abh
 ^^^
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:05:23 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: I'm back, I think ...
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Elaine, who can't believe she's been back on the east coast
> for 5 days and hasn't read a words-l message yet ...

Whatever has happened to your sense of priorities???
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:47:20 -0500
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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Hey, am I this "dgtr" thing in the family tree representation?  And if I
have an Uncle Giggles, where's *my* blue Miata?

--Susan
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:32:17 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> turned out, was with the first two words of the line, 'live' and 'so'.  I
> don't remember now if we were supposed to declaim  "Live, so..." or "Live
> so,...", nor do I remember the poem (-Thanatopsis-, maybe?)

'sgotta be "Thanatopsis."  *Everybody* memorizes those lines in high school.
But isn't it "So live" rather than "Live so"?  "So live that when thy
summons comes to join the innumerable [no, can't be "innumerable"] ...
that somekindof caravan squeaking along to the grave."  Hmmmm.  Think I
botched that last part of the line.  Never was much into American lit.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. Why do I associate that poem with the one about the bird building on
the watery sod?  "As the white duck [hmmmm -- don't think it was a duck]
builds on the watery sod, I'll build my house in the mansion of God"??
Don't think I got that one quite right either...  And the one about the
watery sod reminds me of those silly footprints in the sands of time.
Is it any surprise that I avoided American lit after high school?
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:40:53 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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> IMHO=?

There's a limit to how much we're willing to humor newbies.  Why don't
you take a month out and study a few lists & a dozen or so usenet groups
and come back once you know the basics.  You ask stupider questions than
anyone else we've ever had here, with no redeeming humor or enlightenment
to offer us in return.

G
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: hated terms
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 10:45:21 GMT

Alas, dear grandchildren, I *cannot* make anyone stop anything -- my
function, as described by my <actual, non-list> daughter many years ago,
is to sit on the side of the room and comfort anyone who gets wounded.

Chicken soup (parve, for vegetarians), anyone?

--bayla
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:09:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Deconstruction
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> The only really lucid and workable definition I've found is "the careful
> teasing out of the warring forces of signification within the text."
>             --Barbara Johnson
>
> RICHH

Now, I *really* wish I had said *that*!
--ggs (really too old to understand all this careful teasing out of
  the warring forces of signification within the <text>)
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:17:06 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Father's Day, Anne, Father's Day

>In the con<text> of this dual analogy, I want to know which one is
>Dickens and which is Bernard Shaw?  I want to be Dickens...  I *want*
>to be *Dickens*....
>--ggs

You will be, Giggles, you will be.

-Mka
From: boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU (Joan Boorstein)
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Subject: Re: network mail addressing problem
Date: 6 Sep 92 16:07:16 GMT
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My problem:

>>In a test with a short message, I had only trouble with two addresses
>>(I've changed the user names to XXXXX for privacy's sake).
>>
>>    uunet!brownvm.brown.edu!XXXXXX%hkulbr.hku.hk
>>
>>which became
>>    XXXXXX@hkulbr.hku.hk
>>
>>was undeliverable -- host would not respond.  Anyone know what I could
>>do about this?
>>

Don Roby suggests:

>This address should work.  I suspect there's just a breakdown in the
>connection to Hong Kong.  Since brown seems to be able to deliver to
>this address (assuming of course that it worked before), you might try

>	XXXXX%hkulbr.hku.hk@brownvm.brown.edu

I've now tried this -- last time I did not get an undeliverable message
until at attempt had been made for two days.  No message back from Brown
yet and it has been at least two hours.

>>The other problem was
>>    uunet!brownvm.brown.edu!XXXXXXX%awiimc12.imc.univie.ac
>>
>>which became
>>    XXXXXX@awiimc12.imc.univie.ac
>>
>>The error here was host unknown.  Can anyone suggest a 'correct address'?
>>

Here Don suggests:

>Again try XXXXXX%awiimc12.imc.univie.ac@brownvm.brown.edu and see what
>you get.  This host doesn't appear to be registered with the domain
>name system, though the ".ac" appears to be Bulgaria of all places.

Brown reported host unknown as well.  Any other suggestions?

>whois ac gave:

[results deleted]
I got nowhere as I kept trying 'whois \.ac'.  Is it possible that Bulgaria
is not 'connected' at the moment because of the fighting in Yugoslavia?
It seems a bit far-fetched.

>	UUCP routes all addresses explicitly.  a!b!c!user sends the
>mail to a who recognizes that it has to be forwarded to b (and should
>know how) who forwards it to c where user lives.  The routes are built

Now I know how to understand those addresses -- thanks for all the help,
Graham & Don.

Do most unix mailers understand either form of addressing (bang paths or
usual internet form)?  Does it depend on whether your site is on both
UUCP and the internet?

--- Joan (happy to learn all this network mail stuff and needs to know more)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:12:09 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Usenet kultur
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1992 tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> Anyway, if you want an opinion: you shouldn't "zap the Usenet connection".

Yeah, what he said, especially now that I finally have it on my Mac. gimme
a chance to find ways to post even more banality first.

-abh