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- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.000437.38756@datamark.co.nz>
- From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:04:37 GMT
- References: <medic.711862598@milton> <1992Jul23.180127.1359@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <Brv156.3GL@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <Brv156.3GL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
- >leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- >
- >>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"...
- >
- >Oh yeah, well fuck what CI$ says. So there! :)
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- Excuse me, you left out a 'u'. I edited it for you. :-)
-
- Good to see someone else who doesn't let pseudo-authority get in the
- way of aesthetics.
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