| From: | neil |
| Date: | 14 Jun 2001 at 15:32:38 |
| Subject: | Re: CDRW Burner |
Hihi
On Thursday June 14 2001, Alan Buxey said to Neil Williams:
>> That's IT!
>> Everybody stop writing words in numbers!
AB> pah! this 'text messaging' is hardly a new phenomenon, it only exists
AB> because of 2 issues 1) phones without keyboards are a pain to type
AB> messages with and 2) the limit on SMS message size. even back in 1980's
3) w3 ar3 aLL l33t wArZ d00ds n0w. ph33r mY aBiliteEss.
It's really annoying when you don't read numbers in English too.
m8 = m-vocyem, m-acht, etc.
AB> with Prestel and BBS's everyone wrote in such fashion ...as 1,200 baud
AB> modem was a pain to download bulletin messages with :-)
It's banned on my BBS. And my phone. Possibly I'm the only mobile phone owner
in the UK who bounces unintelligible SMS's like bad emails.
-.
Neil Williams, ICQ UINs: 18223711 & 116110052, 2:442/107
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