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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:53:59 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
              12 Aug 1992 09:51:50 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

I wonder if someone could keep a digest of words-l postings and send it
to Adam when it's reached a certain size.

Evelyn
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From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Free Press strikes again...
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>addition, since Steve turned me on to it, I read The Economist.  I must note,
>Marty

Yes!  The Economist is wonderful.  That, The New Yorker, and Mad I
buy regularly at the drew bookstore.  The cashiers always give me
funny looks;  I wonder why.

--Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:01:59 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Solution to O.2%
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:58:00 EST, "Entropy Warrior" <AUSBROOK@IUBACS.BITNET>
 wrote:
> Apropos 0.2% of the list--if Le Pig thought that post was meant
> for 0.2% of the list, and if Graham thought--and Le Pig agreed--
> that it was meant for him, then the rampant suspicion that Graham
> is .36 of a person is confirmed.
>
> Which two thirds are missing, G?

Isn't 500 a reasonable estimate for the number of readers+lurkers+usenetters
on this list?  Do you know differently?

G
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Mail Boxes, Gender, Boarding School
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:27:07 GMT

Entropid Warrior sez


>Looks like female boarding school humor differs not a whit from
>its (e)mail counterpart.

--but I must plead 'not guilty' -- never went to boarding school of any
kind.  Maybe that's why I'm so slow on the uptake... On the other hand,
I've been a 'dirty old lady' sinc *long* before I started corresponding
with Graham.  My kids despair of me.

--bayla


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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:20:09 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
              20 Aug 1992 09:18:57 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:18:57 CDT Absolut Bandwidth said:
>
>Geeks are just people with abnormal desires regarding high technology,
>particularly computing equipment and software.

And don't forget math; geeks love math.
>
>-abh

Evelyn (who's been called a math geek by her coworkers and bosses)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Evelyn adds:

   And don't forget math; geeks love math.

There you have it, then.  I couldn't possibly be a geek.

//anne//

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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:12:25 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: latin
              15 Aug 1992 20:24:46 GMT from <steph@UTOPIA.HACKTIC.NL>

Steph, I'm ready for the answers.  I think I got two -- caffeine-free
coffee and audiocassette -- but am not sure of those.       --brad
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:50:04 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
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>You forgot to mention that you also shared a bedroom. :-)

True, true, dear, one that was guarded, pitbull-like, by our own ListGoddess.
One that was subject to frequent surprise visits and unannounced sweeps by
same, as if there were mines floating in the beds, rather than the
innocent, sleepy frames found lying there. A room with a door made of
accordion plastic, which secured itself to the wall more with earnest wishes
than with anything resembling a locking mechanism. A room with wide open
windows permitting more free exchange of information than a the most ardent
civil rights advocate could desire. In fact, a pretty major civil rights
advocate slept right outside that room in a tent, and made chin music with the
frogs and crickets all the night long.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:58:45 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Ritual killings
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> Ritual isn't the same as ritualistic - the latter refers to a ritual-like
> event - eg 'ritualistic killings' wouldn't be done by "real" witches, but

I've been thinking about this a lot, Graham and Susan, and I realized
last night (I'm reading a murder mystery called "Southern Exposure"--
great book about South Carolina--in which there are voudou killings
(I finally found out why abh spells it this way)).  And I realized
that for me, ritual is a noun, pure and simple.  But for those
folks who distinguish ritual and ritualistic, ritual can be noun
and adj.

So...is this a back formation?  Well, I guess it is.  It's a kind
of neat distinction, though.  It's a real type of language-change-
in-process.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:39:49 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Graham and Edinburgh
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:08:41 -0500, "Doris Smith" <dorisann@TENET.EDU> wrote:
> summer.  Are you going to sneak off to the Royal Mile while you're there?

I very much doubt I'll have time.  If I do, I'll get some fudge though!
(Enough for both of us :) )

G
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:14:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: The sole of a new machine
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>> Just testing from here to see if the list can get messages from
>> a machine running csh under SunOS.
>
>That's the way I send messages to the list (and elm, of course).

Ah, but Rashmi, you don't work on systems that have been kludged-up by
our firewall-happy SAs so things like gateways are forgotten.  The
machine has all these nifty BSD toys, but because for reasons I don't
really understand, while I can use our "post" (dumbed-down mailx)
program to send mail via domain addresses, I can't use the BSD Mail
program, ftp, telnet, finger, or talk...all of which exist on the
system.  I cannot even send mail to myself using BSD Mail: stuff sent
from polaris to ktw@hlwpk.hl.att.com (the fully qualified address)
shoots the mail to dead.letter and announces that the system is
unknown.  The "info" pieces on polaris tell me that in order to use
tcp/ip with domain addressing, I have to modify my scripts.  But
nobody on the system can tell me what those scripts are, or where they
live.

I'm not looking forward to the day I have to "migrate" over to polaris
in a few weeks and they tell me that this account is going away.

Ken
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:42:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHY WAS GIGGLES IN THE BUSHES?? (was Re: Clambake Pictures)
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> Oh dear.  You give me this fascinating assignment just as I need to
> log off, eat breakfast, and get ready to go to campus.  Are you talking
> about relatively large group at fire?  ... HEY!!!!  I'm glad I looked!!!
> But whatever were you doing by yourself in the bushes to the far left of
  1)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the picture??????  I'm in that picture, btw -- I'm the person as far
> away from you as is possible (or rather as is pictured) -- sitting on
   2)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> rock with computer in lap.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> P.S. I think you meant Jim and fiancee, not Don and fiancee.
  3)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1)  Ahem.....  well, was I a) taking a <leak> or b) doing a no-no
or c) avoiding Plotkin or d) getting ready for the ascension that
I felt coming on or  e) returning from having changed from my short
little-boy pants to my long grown-up pants which were stored
fortunately in my Plymouth Voyager?  What do you think?
.
2)  This is not surprising, everyone was staying as far away from me
as possible don't think I didn't notice...
.
3)  Bingo!  I get so confused, now I have to tell tc/sw about it all
over again, *if* she is still in a good *Jaguar* mood.
--ggs  (thinking it was <e> which never happened....)
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:26:13 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Next Year's Event
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My vote's for Asheville, especially if I get to stay at giggles' house and
*piss* *off* his wife.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:25:50 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List wars

>        Yes.  In recent memory as a matter of fact (BTW, I had no
>idea word count could be such a hotly debated topic).
>
>Rita

Yeah?  What's the story?  And I don't mean to be obtuse, but
how's word count a hotly debated topic?

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:53:38 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Old machines

*** Resending note of 08/21/92 09:36

>Do did you also have an IBM typewriter with a gasoline engine?

>-Mka

No, but I have some old gasoline engines that sound as bad as some of those
old IBM Selectronics :-)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:44:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: i musta been sleeping
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> Funny you should ask. The temperature. Damn Mount Pinatubo

I thought that's what was making the temperature go down this summer.
It still feels like October here.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:43:00 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: WHY WAS GIGGLES IN THE BUSHES?? (was Re: Clambake
              Pictures)
              21 Aug 1992 17:13:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

>
>Yeah, Brad and I were <just like this> the whole afternoon.  Right,
>Brad baby?
>--ggs (suddenly remembering the words to Love Lifted Me...)

  I was sinking deep in sin / Far from the peaceful shore,
  Very deeply stained within / Sinking to rise no more;
  But the Master of the sea / Heard my despairing cry,
  From the waters lifted me / Now safe am I.

  Love lift - ed me !   Love lift - ed me !  When nothing else
  could help, Love lift-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-ed me .
         --Renewal c1940 Mrs. Howard E. Smith.  Assigned to John T. Benson, Jr.

--brad
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:04:58 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Rolled trousers and peaches
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              at Aug 18, 92 1:36 pm

> You left out "Oh, go etherise yourself"--I only meant to say that
> you can always be counted on to say something sweet, Rita.

	Why, thank you from the bottom of my sugar-coated heart, Mka.
I do try to oblige.


Czarina
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:17:55 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Not an Apology
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              Aug 12, 92 1:21 pm

>
> Actually, the subtext of the current discussion isn't really about
> saying anything that offends people, or causing offense.  I think most
> people who commented really wanted to point out to Dan that if he
> kept mentioning <that subject>, people might get the wrong impression
> about him.  I think folks said 'Dan, that's a tactless way to talk and
> you might cause offense' because it was less hurtful than saying to
> him 'Dan, if you don't stop going on about this all the time people
> are going to think you've got some sort of obsession'.  I think it
> was Dan's realisation that the latter was in fact what was meant
> that prompted him to unsub in pique.  But the fact is, after the third
> or fourth time he had mentioned it over the last year, people _were_
> beginning to say these things in private mail, so it was probably for
> the best that it came up in public.
>
> G
>

I'm not sure of Don's reasons for unsubbing, but I agree with the rest
of Graham's analysis above.  Censorship/causing offense was not the
real issue.

rashmi
who apologizes for excessive quoting, but it seemed relevant
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:26:38 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Weird
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              Liz Clayton <lclayton@uhuru.uchicago.edu>
              18 Aug 1992 21:30:36 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:30:36 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>Oh but I have trifocals also.  I don't use them at the computer because
>I don't like getting a crick in my neck.  My computer glasses are a

   WHY NOT just go to the infinite focals/continuous bifocals, etc..??

>that I'm going to need new trifocals also (of which I also have two
>pairs -- one red and one blue -- I mean the frames, not the glasses).

   ohhhhh...and here I was thinking that they were some old 3-D glasses
from a cereal box.....and they were just Sally Jessy glasses....and Natalie
is blonde, too.....hmmmmmm...

>P.S. Re monitor not turned on:  I once reported that my voice-data modem
>was broken, only to discover that it wasn't plugged in.

    well....yes.....that is a bit of a problem.  Andy, my son, used to do
phone maintenance/consulting for a chain of retailers that had POS terminals
that were modified IBM PCs...yes original ones....and people always had
problems with how to put the 5.25 inch floppies into them.  As he says,

"there are eight ways to put a floppy in the drive....but only one of them
is interesting."

He is sure that he had people trying ALL eight positions.

dan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:03:54 -0500
Reply-To:     Nancy Harwood <harwood@tenet.edu>
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: End of Summer
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1992, Melicent Tlucek Bryarly wrote:
> Nancy, one of our elementary schools is going to year-round school this
> year. They are all excited about it. Said they have interviewed many
> teachers who started it last year and said that they love it, that the
> kids are better...they all love the 2 weeks off throughout the year.  Our
> principal would love to go to it...but because of athletics, we would have
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to do both at the high school level, regular and year-round.

Wouldn't it be revolutionary if *sometimes* we could make educational
decisions without thinking first of athletics? :-)
ndh
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Date: 20 Aug 92 13:44:10 GMT
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//anne//
   Your observations about your perceptions of male /female
equality were interesting. You should never apologize for using
bandwidth (especially considering how bandwidth does get
used around here) I have noticed also that relationships
among the teens that I know (my own teenage kids and a large
group of their friends) seem to be on a much less strict
sex role basis. When I was a teen (in the 60s) things like
girls asking boys out and boy/girl relationships that were
friendships only were unheard of. Now these are common. But
more than that , the teens I know seem have fewer expectations
about how people will act based on whether they are male or
female. I don't know if this is in any way typical of teens
in general, but it seems to be really healthy for the kids
I know.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:27:53 -0500
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Doors
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1992, Tony Harminc wrote:
> Well - the comments on this list are the first time I have *ever* heard
> any woman say anything positive about The Doors.  The usual reaction
> is a sort of knowing sneer - and then if pressed, some comment about
> Morrison being musically-competent-but-not-a-god.  When pressed
> further, the answer is something like "yes but - why do they have
> to be so threatening ?".

Threatening?  I find it interesting that this is a female thing in your
experience, that women are calling the Doors threatening.  I don't think
they're threatening.  Challenging, maybe.  That's a different thing, though.

I have not yet met (in person, anyway) a fan of the Doors that is male.

Actually, there is a group in Berkeley, CA, called the First Church of the
Doors, which does indeed worship Jim Morrison as a god.  For real.  Would
that they found the Doors a little more threatening...

> Tony H.

--Susan
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: gonadological oppression
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:37:55 GMT



>I don't think anyone said understanding is impossible; I believe
>the point was *identification* w/ a group.  And many people feel
>this is impossible w/out being a member of that group.

Perhaps somebody could explain why "identification" with a group
is necessary or even desireable as a prereq for teaching a class.
This, I suspect, is a political/ideological preference rather than
an intellectual necessity. I think it was Dan who previously indicated
that if the goal is to address issues comprehensively, then it would
seem those who would deliver curriculum by racial or sex/gender
ghettoizing are doing both students and their profession a disservice.

Jim (as a gael, guess I can't teach much white-boy sociology) Thomas
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 14:32:28 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gender
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>Reactionary?  Maybe.  I can be a flaming feminist too--when the
>argument makes sense or the issue feels right.  And I don't have

What is it about men who identify themselves as feminist that makes me want to
<puke>?

Alan Alda
Dustin Hoffman
Phil Donahue

...and so on.


In the nicest way possible,
-abh
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:48:42 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Aren't we discussing politics?

>Maybe we should elect more democrats because they are better speakers?

Neither party is very big on chiastic word order or zeugmas.  A
pox on both their rhetorical houses.

Apropos Willie Horton--why is it that, as aweful as the ad
campaign was--the focus is always on the *fact* of the ad and not
on the fact that it seems to have had its effect?  I mean there's
space enough in the papers for excoriating the benighted (thank
you abh for activating a very nice word that had lain dormant too
long--entropized until you goosed it) politicos *and* the people
who elect them.

By the way, if any of you have odd, interesting questions, I am
offering my research services.  Law students here have free
access to LEXIS/ NEXIS--the *only* reason to go to law school,
but also a sufficient one.  It is absolutely *amazing* what is on
the sucker.  I think the last dispute I resolved concerned heat
lightning.  Turns out there's no such thing.  It's just a name
folks give to lightning that strikes over the horizon.  There
*are* two kinds of lightning--sheet and forked.  (No explanation
of the difference--LEXIS has its limitations.)

Oh--apropos gender, I also checked the frequency of the phrases
"the problem of sexual harassment" vs. "the question of sexual
harassment."  The latter was used about 2-1.  Says something, if
not altogether conclusive.

-Mka
who has gotten the sheckles together to put Tosia, his/her
Toshiba 5100, back together again after it's innards were
randomized by lightning that definitely did not strike over the
horizon.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:14:25 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Sloooooow

>>Anybody else having trubs with speed?
>
>The net is, to put it in technical terms, majorly whacked today. I dunno why.

Let's hope it's not up for a promotion to lieutenant colonel.

-Mka
From: amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)
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Subject: Re: Wait up!
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:14:50 GMT
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We simply say "Wait!" or "Wait for me!" or even "Wait a second/minute."

Of course, now many of us say "Wait up!" as well... :)

--Susan
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:00:16 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: O.2% Solution
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> Well, the computer ALWAYS cares about these differences.  Just as you
> care about the difference between an a and a b.
>
> Try addressing something to a1i1este@idbsu.idbsu.edu and see what
> happens......

I know.  That's one of the first warnings I always give to new e-mailers.
I was talking about display.  Printers don't always distinguish between
0 and O or 1 and l.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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