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RE: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Lehman [mailto:lehman@javanet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 4:13 PM
> To: lugnet.org.au@lugnet.com; lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
> 
> 
> In lugnet.org.au, Timothy Gould writes:
> > Does it annoy anyone else that ebay.com.AU is meant to be • an Australian
> > site but uses the American dating system mm/dd/yy rather than ours
> > dd/mm/yy?
> > 
> > Sorry, just noticed it and got mad!! Please do not turn this into a
> > cross-Pacific sledging match as I mean no disrespect for • the US dating
> > convention only for the fact that a supposedly .au site is • using it when
> > Australian's DON'T.
> 
> I'm annoyed by it too -- and I'm American!  I think the
> American dating system
> (mm/dd/yyyy) are the second dumbest thing on the entire
> planet.  dd/mm/yyyy
> makes so much more sense.
> 
> --Todd


Care to tell us what the dumbest thing is ????

Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128

Growing older is compulsory...Growing up isn't :-)



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  Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
 
(...) OK, the top dumbest thing is U.S. weights and measures (pounds, gallons, inches, feet, miles, etc.) rather than the metric system, which fully rules. And the third dumbest thing is U.S. paper sizes (Letter, Ledger, Statement, etc.) rather than (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
  Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
 
Benjamin, how is it your reply to the start of the thread appeared above it? And when is your work ISP going to fix it's aging mail server so that it actually properly handles mailing list posts, or whatever posts you chuck at it? Cheers ... (...) (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)

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