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Subject:Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:42:39 -0500
since many letters and numerals have particular commands associated with
them in unix and in the interests of standardization and automation i
will henceforth use only the letter t and standardize of a 4 character
word and 70 character line
tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt
tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt
tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt tttt
by the way it is in the tradition of unix to use some odd variations of
spelling so i will not be correcting any of that either
Mike Huber
mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Buck Buchanan [SMTP:buck -dot- buchanan -at- citicorp -dot- com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 12:24 PM
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>Subject: Re: My Bonney Lies Over the Ocean
>
>> >>i have nothing against capital letters, it's just that the internet's
>> >>history is rooted in the unix operating system and so, quite often,
>> >>character strings are case-sensitive; in order to simplify typing,
>> >>especially with a new keyboard, we communciate via e-mail and internet
>> >>using lower-case letters as much as possible; only if there is some
>> >>real need to use capitalization do use them.
>>
>> Hhhhmmmmm.
>
>
>Then why the punctuation. Internet uses periods (dots) for strange
>non-punctuation reasons. And both dos and unix get confused with dots.
>Thus it would be much better to delete all punctuation.
>
>Oh, well....................dot dot dot dot
>--
>Buck Buchanan
>Software Documentation
>Citicorp Technology Center
>Westlake, Texas
>Speaking for me, not for them!
>
>buck -dot- buchanan -at- citicorp -dot- com
>formerly: writer -at- dhc -dot- net
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