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From: Neal McClain
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 15:11
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 15:11
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In <26OCT199219491219@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes: >How and when did 'Tennessee' become 'tn?' ...stuff deleted... >Now that we've got those responses out of the way, are there any others? Well, consider the problem of usenet traffic. Suppose all posters spelled out their state's name instead of using the 2 char form. So if the state name is in 10000 messages a day, and if the 2 char form saves an average of 6 chars a name then we get a savings of 60000 bytes a day in message traffic. What's wrong with that? :-) Neal McClain | Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent Murfreesboro, Tn | life down here! root@fincomp.raidernet.com | uunet!mjbtn!fincomp!root
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tiamat!mjbtn!fincomp!root From: root@fincomp.raidernet.com (Neal McClain) Newsgroups: tn.talk Subject: Re: let's talk about this... Message-ID: <1992Oct28.151119.27030@fincomp.raidernet.com> Date: 28 Oct 92 15:11:19 GMT References: <26OCT199219491219@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu> Organization: Financial Computers Corp., Murfreesboro, TN Lines: 18