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RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing


Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Joe Smith wrote:
>> 
>>>> The fact that both you and OAU use strange (humerous) names for the
>>>> cygwn-talk list, and have both always used pine running on a computer
>>>> in that network...
>>> 
>>> Huh?  *Everyone* on this list uses a strange name for it.  You should
>>> see what conundrums DaveK comes up with (a new one for every post).
>> 
>>   Actually I did repeat one once.
>> 
>>   But fortunately that was in 1927, well before the invention of
>> computers or the internet, so nobody noticed.
> 
> What, you mean there was a time when mailing lists weren't archived?
> Gasp!
> 	Igor


  Archiving was really expensive back in the old days... just six months worth
of mail could easily occupy four or five pigeon lofts and require several
dozen kilos of birdseed every day.


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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