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Article #369Re: courtesy titles
From: Simon Brooke
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:05
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:05
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Emas Refugee wrote:
> Craig Cockburn <craig@SiliconGlen.com> wrote in message
> news:<NarIeaCjsAx9EwFM@SiliconGlen.com>...
>> I just wrote this out of frustration with user hostile websites,
>> comments welcome
>>
>> http://www.siliconglen.com/culture/courtesytitles.html
>
> I'd love to see you explain this bit:
>
> "I've been on the Internet in the UK since 1983."
What's odd about that? I've been using the Internet in the UK for seventeen
years now, and I'm not one of the pioneers.
--
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
...but have you *seen* the size of the world wide spider?
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