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From: jimn@phred.UUCP (Jim Nevermann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: That "Heavenly stairway" sig.
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:53:38 GMT
Reply-To: jimn@phred.UUCP
Organization: Physio-Control

I'm responding to Sam Stoddard's 9/24/92 signature with the "religious stairway" implying that the only people who return to God (when they die?) are Christians... a stance that I believe gives new meaning to the word "presumptuous". I see a fair amount of that type of thinking and it's more than once made me embarrassed that I'm a Christian! 

After and during several years of assorted courses, lectures, discussions, friendships in and out of my church and with folks of more than several of those world religions he shows in Hell, I "rediscovered the wheel" that Christ is still the way to God... INclusively but not EXclusively! 

Hey fellow Christians, God is not a Key Club!! 

I find the stairway sig. to be offensive and childish by several orders of magnitude. I'd suggest Sam take a course or two in World Religions. 

Is Christianity the best way to God? Yeah: it's the best way for Christians!

Fire away! Grrrrrrrrrr
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From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Borg implants mentioned in Heir to the Empire?
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:55:55 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Sep30.035310.24643@Princeton.EDU> subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>So what's the deal here? On page 50 (and in a couple other areas) of "Heir to 
>the Empire" (the Lucasfilm-authorized continuation of the Star Wars saga by 
>Timothy Zahn) they refer ``Borg implants'' on spaceships. Is something fishy
>here? I thought the `Borg' was a Star TREK initiated thing, not Star WARS.

"Borg", short for "Cyborg", short for "Cybernetic Organism", of which there
have been plenty in SF.  Cybermen, Cylons, and perhaps the most infamous
cyborg of them all - Darth Vader.  Star Trek is very much a newcomer in this
field.

Of course, it is always possible that on their way from "a long time ago in
a galaxy far, far away" to "24th century in this galaxy here", the borg
implants from "Heir to the Empire" somehow mutated into the Borg.  In a
universe where the most powerful starship around is classed as a peaceful
exploration vessel, anything is possible. :-)

-- 
 "Keyboard?  How quaint!" - M. Scott

 Adrian Hurt			     |	JANET:  adrian@uk.ac.hw.cs
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From: watters@mendel.genetics.washington.edu (Mike Watters)
Subject: Re: hardware wars
Organization: University of Washington   
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:06:53 GMT

In article <6OCT199212352204@pavo.concordia.ca> f_alfan@pavo.concordia.ca (ALFANI, FABRIZIO) writes:
>
> While flipping through this newsgroup, I noticed someone (Gallandro) using
>a quote from Hardware Wars, a short spoof of SW which appeared in the early 
>80's. My question is, does anybody (Canada/continental U.S) have a copy of this
>satire, or know where I can get one? E-mail me, I just have to see that spoof
>again, and I'll go to pretty extreme lengths to do so.
>
>Aggie Ben Doggie Rules!
>
>DDDDDDDDDD    OOOOOOOOO     OOOOOOOOO     MMM      MMM   !!!!!!!
>DDDDDD   DD  OOO     OOO   OOO     OOO    MMM MMMM MMM    !!!!!
>DDDDDD   DD  OOO     OOO   OOO     OOO    MMM  MM  MMM     !!!
>DDDDDD   DD  OOO     OOO   OOO     OOO    MMM  MM  MMM      
>DDDDDD   DD  OOO     OOO   OOO     OOO    MMM      MMM    !!!!!
>DDDDDDDDDD    OOOOOOOOO     OOOOOOOOO     MMM      MMM    !!!!!
>
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>|| " STICK YOUR HEAD IN A MICROWAVE, AND GET YOURSELF A TAN " ||
>||                'DARE TO BE STUPID' -- W.A. YANKOVIC        ||
>||                                                            ||
>||   ALL OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE MINE,MINE,MINE,MINE    ||
>||   AND MINE ALONE!!! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT SHARING THEM    ||
>||                                                            ||
>||   ---DOOM (F_ALFANI), APPRECIATOR OF ALL THINGS LEWD---    ||
>||                F_ALFAN@PAVO.CONCORDIA.CA                   ||
>||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>

It's contained in a video called "Hardware Wars and other film farces"
Also contains "PorkLips Now" (just a little less boring that the original IMHO)
	"Bambi meets Godzilla"
	and others that escape me at the moment.

My favorite parts:
	The song: "I'm proud to be an Obi Wan Kenobi"
           

mike

--
Mike
watters@genetics.washington.edu
Dept of Genetics, Univ of Washington  Seattle
(d) 206-543-1934   (e) 206-361-1156 
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From: franka@owlnet.rice.edu (Frank Alejano)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Episodes I-III on tv?
Keywords: tv
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:09:32 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <28SEP199211593177@rigel.tamu.edu>, tap1040@rigel.tamu.edu (SPEED RACER) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep28.141849.14753@e2big.mko.dec.com>, kim@i812.enet.dec.com (H. Kim) writes...
|> > 
|> >Someone told me that before Star Wars, episode IV, that the first three 
|> >episodes were aired as "made for tv" movies.  Is this true?  I was too young
|> >to remember such movies.  Why haven't they been re-aired?  Does anyone
|> >remember these movies?  Or is this just some rumor?  There was also talk of 
|> >a fourth movie before the release of SW:ANH.  It was something about
|> >the wookie/empire conflict.  Can anyone expound on these?
|> > 
|> >Howard 
|> 
|> 
|> Somebody is pulling your leg.  This is entirely false.  Don't listen to them.
|> 
|> ________________________________________________________________________________
|> 
|>                                      Tracy      
|>                               Texas A&M University
|> 				       
|> John Madden: "There's a good sign.  Troy Aikman putting his pants back on."
|> Pat Summerall: "That's ALWAYS a good sign."    (RFK Stadium, Nov. 24, 1991)
|> ________________________________________________________________________________


Actually, there was a Thanksgiving TV movie that came out _many_ years ago that
took place on the wookie homeworld.  It included Cameos by most of the cast.
Don't remember whether it was good or not, but it did involve some sort of wookie/empire conflict after ANH.  I seem to remember it coming out 1(?) year
before ESB.  Anyone out there know any other details?

						Frank
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From: Ray.Chramega <Ray.Chramega@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: Archive Site News (question)
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 04:03:34 GMT

In <TJ0QB0N3@cc.swarthmore.edu> kennedy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Sean Kennedy) writes:

>ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter) writes:

>>I am considering changing all the gifs on the FTP site into jpg files,
>>to save on disk space. jpg take up much less room. If I get any major
>>feedback on the negative side, I won't, but if not, I will switch over
>>next week sometime.

>>-- 
>> Scott Streeter                             Keeper of the Star Wars Archive
>> ss@wpi.wpi.edu                             wpi.wpi.edu        130.215.24.1


>I think most people would agree that gifs are accessable to a greater number
>of people and they are easier to work with.


>				--Sean Kennedy
>				  kennedy@cs.swarthmore.edu

My sentiment exactly!

-- 


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From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Archive News
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:56:09 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


FOR VMS USERS

The program lzdcmp.exe can be used to uncompress the .Z files found on
my FTP site. You can locate it from any of the following FTP sites.
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Host fly.bio.indiana.edu

    Location: /util/vms
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Host ftp.uu.net

    Location: /systems/vms
           FILE -rw-r--r--      69632  May 14 1990  lzdcmp.exe

Host gatekeeper.dec.com

    Location: /.0/VMS
           FILE -r--r--r--      69632  May 15 1990  lzdcmp.exe

Host genbank.bio.net

    Location: /pub/vms
           FILE -rw-r--r--      72192  Jul 11 1990  lzdcmp.exe

Host nic.funet.fi

    Location: /pub/csc/tools/vms/anu-news
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Host nic.switch.ch

    Location: /software/vms/compression
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      69632  Jan 31 1992  lzdcmp.exe

Host samba.acs.unc.edu

    Location: /pub/wuarchive/packages/compression/vax-vms
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      69632  Jan 31 1992  lzdcmp.exe
    Location: /pub/wuarchive/packages/news/vmsnews
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      69632  Feb 11 1990  lzdcmp.exe
    Location: /pub/wuarchive/packages/nqs/vms
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    Location: /hp48/archive_utils/vms
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Host unix.hensa.ac.uk

    Location: /pub/uunet/systems/vms
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Host wuarchive.wustl.edu

    Location: /packages/compression/vax-vms
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      69632  Jan 31 1992  lzdcmp.exe
    Location: /packages/news/vmsnews
           FILE -rw-rw-r--      69632  Feb 11 1990  lzdcmp.exe
    Location: /packages/nqs/vms
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-- 
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 ss@wpi.wpi.edu                             wpi.wpi.edu        130.215.24.1
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars,rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: subbarao@tex.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Subject: Borg implants mentioned in Heir to the Empire?
Reply-To: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao)
Organization: putchar('I'); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) putchar('E');
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:53:10 GMT

So what's the deal here? On page 50 (and in a couple other areas) of "Heir to 
the Empire" (the Lucasfilm-authorized continuation of the Star Wars saga by 
Timothy Zahn) they refer ``Borg implants'' on spaceships. Is something fishy
here? I thought the `Borg' was a Star TREK initiated thing, not Star WARS.

	-Kartik

P.S. For what it's worth, I recommend Zahn's Star Wars books (Heir to the
Empire and Dark Force Rising) -- his writing style is annoying in some places, 
but the overall story is excellent.
From: lim@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Julie Lim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday...
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:27:12 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <91594@netnews.upenn.edu> worthm@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael A Worth) writes:
>
>Who was born first, Luke or Leia?
>
>Opinions are nice, documented facts are nicer.

	Well, there aren't any "documentd facts" on the matter, sad to say. The
closest thing that might count is in the _Jedi_ novelization, where Luke finds
himself "thinking about Leia like a protective older brother, even though he
suddenly realized he didn't know which of them had been born first" (*very*
rough paraphrase here). So that's pretty inconclusive, even if it does give a
wee hint-- and according to Unca George, nothing about the saga is "fact"
unless it's in the movies-- none of the books counts, none of the trading-
card info, etc.

	Personally,. I'd like to think Leia was born first, if only to sink
that "protective older brother" stereotype. But then, I have my own odd little
opinions about the family in general. :)

.
-- 
MUDname: Sidera           "...If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would
University of Delaware      hate to be giving the wrong impression."
From: lim@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Julie Lim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Zorba the Hutt's... Fat, Slimy & Ugly
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:29:49 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <memo.651281@cix.compulink.co.uk> plebeau@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>
>Also complements to Julie Lim - great story Julie! I've got
>a title for you - 'The Confusion of Anakin' !


	Err, thanks, I think-- but why that title? I'm sooo confuuused.... :)


-- 
MUDname: Sidera           "...If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would
University of Delaware      hate to be giving the wrong impression."
From: zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: How'd He Do It?
Date: 26 Sep 92 15:41:11 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


Something improbable I noticed in "Empire," which I was watching last night.

Of course, everyone here is likely familiar with the ending of Luke and Vader
slugging it out (or slashing it out), and Vader's telling Luke he's his dad, and
Luke plunging off the tower, through the understructure of Cloud City, and 
onto a giant antenna of some sort, where he hangs.  

Darth is seen looking down after Luke falls, obvious disappointed in the
way things developed.

Now Luke's hanging there, and he calls first for Ben, but when Ben doesn't
answer, he calls for Leia.  She "hears" him, they turn the ship around,
and get Luke off the antenna, restoring good TV reception to all the folks
of Cloud City.

Now they speed out into space, pursued by several TIE fighters.  And once
out in space, they steer clear of a Star Destroyer, evidentlaly orbiring 
near the planet.

Now, here's the odd thing: Darth Vader, it turns out, is *already* on that
Star Destroyer.  

How'd he get there so fast?

If he's got a ship that can take him into space faster than the Falcon can get
away from the planet, why can't the Imperials ever catch the Falcon, "the
fastest hunk-a-junk in the galaxy," as Lando calls it?

The only other explanation I can think of is Vader said "Beam Me Up, Scotty,"
and borrowed the Enterprise's transporter for a while...


John
zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: tigerman@athena.mit.edu (Guillermo E Gutierrez)
Subject: pictures.
Keywords: 	Does anybody know where I could get good pictures of SW-related
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:27:48 GMT

subjects - - ESPECIALLY OF THE MILLENIUM FALCON?  I would really prefer scanned
graphics, but as long as they're well done, any Falcon's fine.
				Thanks in advance.

	Also, what's the news on T. Zahn's last triology book (the Heir to The
Empire series?


						Tigerman
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From: ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink)
Subject: First three movies...ANYBODY???
Organization: Turkey Hall
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 01:25:40 GMT


Ages and ages ago, somebody said that on October 2nd, a magazine was supposed to
come out with an interview of George Lucas in it.  He was supposed to answer,
finally, all the questions about the next Star Wars movies.  Has anybody read
this yet?  What does it say??
-- 
\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/<\>/
/\     Samuel Stoddard                                ss1@kepler.unh.edu     <>
><                                                                           /\
\/      "Savior and Destroyer, Mirror of Life and Death."--Terry Brooks      ><
<>                      "No.  There is another."--Yoda                       \/
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From: Simon.N.Smith@cm.cf.ac.uk (Simon N me )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Models
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:34:57 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.

Scott Streeter writes:

Scott> The Vader kit was a bit pricey, but it is nice. No I haven't
Scott> built it yet. 

It's 50 pounds here in the UK!  At the current (volatile) exchange rate
that's about 87 dollars!



Scott> The Rebel Base in my list is the Hoth Base. I will update the file.
Scott> Also Jabba's Throne Room is on the list.

This is good news, but I haven't seen any of these in the UK.  Are they
commonly available in the States, or have they only been found at
collector/dealers where you have to pay BIG money?

I was going to ask if any owners of these model scenes could describe them
for the rest of us, but as a better idea, if you do have any of these
scenes, or indeed any of the other more rare models, why not take a picture,
scan it in, and archive it at wpi.wpi.edu as a gif or jpg.  Make sure you make
a posting telling us they'll be there though!

Sy



-- 
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From: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper)
Subject: Two unrelated questions
Organization: University of Administrative Incompetence
Reply-To: dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  
Distribution:  world
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:12:59 GMT
X-Posted-From: oolong.hacks.arizona.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

1.  For those of you who have the laserdisc version of ESB, are R2-D2's 
"words" legible on the screen in Luke's X-wing?  They are just a blur in my 
VHS version of the movie.  If you can read them, what is he saying?

2.  In the Kenner booklets just following the release of ROTJ, some 
pictures of the Squid Head figure show him with a black cape and gold belt. 
In the later booklets (and every figure of him I have seen) he has a grey 
cape and belt.  Does a figure exist with the former color scheme?  If so, 
does anyone have one they'd be willing to sell?

--Gallandro

  From 1964:
  Reporter: "What do you think of the campaign in Detroit to stamp out the
             Beatles?"
  Paul McCartney: "We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit."
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Anakin's last words
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:59:02 GMT

dyko@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Darren Yiu Ming KO) writes:


>	I didn't catch Vader's last words..."Tell your sister <mumble...>"
>	Could a kind soul please fill me in on that?


"Rosebud."


No, just kidding.  He said, "Tell your sister...you were right...gack...
rattle..."


                      --Steve Stelter
                        sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: 907fanjoy@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: More GIFS wanted on FTP SITE
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:29:55 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University


	I recently checked out the Star Wars FTP site, and I was 
impressed.  The GIFS were great!!!!!!

	This message is basically directed to anyone w/ a scanner
or that has some other gifs that they'd like to upload to the FTP site.
Anyway, here's a list of some gifs that I'd like to see:

	1.  Any Han Solo gifs (I was surprised that there weren't any)

	2.  More space scenes 

	3.  Fighters:  A-Wings, B-Wings, Y-Wings, and TIEs of all variety

	4.  Boba Fett w/ jetpack on

	5.  Stormtroopers of all variety

	6.  Leia

	7.  Darth getting electricuted (you can see his skull for a couple
            frames in the movie).

Thanks in advance to anyone that can get these to the FTP site.

		--Dave "Y-Wings and Boba Fett are Cool"  Fanjoy
From: 907fanjoy@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: How'd He Do It?
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:41:58 GMT
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Sep26.154111.26403@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>, zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
> 
> Now Luke's hanging there, and he calls first for Ben, but when Ben doesn't
> answer, he calls for Leia.  She "hears" him, they turn the ship around,
> and get Luke off the antenna, restoring good TV reception to all the folks
> of Cloud City.
> 
> Now they speed out into space, pursued by several TIE fighters.  And once
> out in space, they steer clear of a Star Destroyer, evidentlaly orbiring 
> near the planet.
> 
> Now, here's the odd thing: Darth Vader, it turns out, is *already* on that
> Star Destroyer.  
> 
> How'd he get there so fast?

> 

	In this whole scene, there's also a variable missing:  the time 
elapsed between when Luke falls into the pit and when the MF arrives to 
rescue him.   In the movie, it looked like about 2 minutes, but it could well
have been five or ten, maybe even fifteen.  That's more than enough time for 
Vader to make a hasty exit from cloud city.

		--Dave "Y-Wings and Boba Fett are Cool" Fanjoy
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From: MLINDROOS@finabo.abo.fi (Marcus Lindroos INF)
Subject: Re: Why Endor? OR The Economy of Galaxy Farfaraway
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:49:00 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In <1992Sep29.043450.312@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu writes:

> In article <martin.717641879@zen> martin@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Martin Caden) writes:
> >
> >In <92269.192736DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu> <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> >
> >>Well, if you go by Heir to the Empire ( not that you should ) , Coruscant was
> >>supposedly the Imperial throneworld.
> 
> Personally, if I was building my "throneworld," with my nice palace
> and everything, I wouldn't put it on the industrial planets, with all
> the polution, etc.  I would be much more likely to put it on a nice
> scenic planet, not too far away from civilization, but not too close
> to all the "undesireable" planets, either, where you can look out
> of the palace windows and see a nice view, rather than a factory
> or something like that.  Someone else might put it elsewhere, but
> I certainly wouldn't.

What's better suited for this purpose than the DeathStar?! It is big enough
(160km/100mi) to qualify as a small world as it is, can move from star system
to star system, is heavily armored and can blast entire planets into oblivion.
Galactic counterparts of Charlemagne, Ghengis Khan, Hitler etc. would love
to have it as their permanent headquarters. Every dictator should have a
DeathStar.
 
> -- 
> "Dog bites man--that's not a story.  Man bites dog--*that's* a story.  And
> if the dog and the man slug it out for six issues, and then Wolverine shows
> up for a guest appearance, and the dog turns out to be a mutant, that's a
> *Marvel* story!"			-Marvel Editorial Handbook

MARCU$
From: rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: What does ANH stand for
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:46:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.BvI6Ky.ID2
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

What does ANH stand for. Please reply by e-mail to rjk@world.std.com

Many Thanx

Conan the Libertarian rjk@world.std.com
"If you can't love the Constitution, at least hate the Government"
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