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Old July 11th 03, 07:35 PM
Stephen Tonkin
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Paul Kelly wrote:
Totally off topic really, but I couldnt help but marvel at the extent
to which the above two sentences would have been utterly unfathomable
to anyone just a decade or so ago :-)


Equally off topic, and horribly pedantic:

Not quite utterly. :-)

"Troffed" was BBS parlance over a decade ago (usually with respect to
files). I don't know when "spam" came in , but Canter and Siegel did
their loathsome bit for it in April 1994. Haven't a clue about "munged".


Best,
Stephen

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