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Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:33:56 GMT
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Subject: What does the "ob" (as in "oblego") mean?
Topic-Level: 1
Content-Language: en
Originator: John Matthews, 1999-03-23
Revision: Jeremy Sproat, 1999-03-23
Reference: http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.faq:74
Comment: would this be more appropriate in the acronym list?
Location: /general/

<P>"ob" is an abbreviation of "obligatory".  Among other things, it's an
old Usenet trick to insert an on-topic remark into an otherwise off-topic
message.</P>



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