Re: New York Times article on BBS's

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From: Thomas Farmer
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:04

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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! :)

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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Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:04:37 GMT
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