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- From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.152041.28854@panix.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:20:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com> <rdippold.711661229@cancun> <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <medic.711862598@milton> <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology
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- In <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >medic@milton.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes:
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- >For what it is worth, The *format* is owned by Compuserve. They just
- >let folks use it freely. And the standards document says it is pronounced
- >"jif"...
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- For what it's worth, NOBODY has ever attempted to dictate pronounciation of
- an acronym in a standards document. The only reason CIS did it is because
- they are going out of their way to have people pronounce it in a way that
- is not normal. I don't recognize their right to do that.
-
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