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From: Darren Salt
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:00

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In article <ant2219120b0Xuqh@t669454.tip.nl>
          Nico ter Haar <nico.terhaar@tip.nl> wrote:

> In article <473EA9004A%arcsalt@spuddy.mew.co.uk>, Darren Salt
> <URL:mailto:arcsalt@spuddy.mew.co.uk> wrote:

>> I know which symbol I'd use. �.

> Or even better, the Pound sign is no longer needed and can be replaced by
> the new C= sign.

No it can't. Aside from the argument concerning accounts (see elsewhere), a
lot of 'old' text would still need it.

Not to mention the fact that this single currency is one way of removing a
large chunk of our various national identities (and as such is utterly
deplorable).

Anyway, I thought they'd stopped using the <spit> C= symbol a few years
ago, when they went bust and sold the rights for the Amoeba... ;-)

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From: Darren Salt <arcsalt@spuddy.mew.co.uk>
Subject: Re: EuroCurrency
Date: 1996/12/26
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