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| | | (...) BB because they're pretty cool and were part one of "threads that draw the brits together against those darn yanks" and TE because they're part two of "t t d t b t a t d y"... Oh, wait, I'm not supposed to post to this thread, am I? Anyway, I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | (...) You are always welcome Larry... we are a very inclusive community. Scott A (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Liam Parnell
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| | | | | (...) Yes! That's what I wanted to say, but didn't want to kick up a fuss. We Brits being more reserved than those banned Yank imposters. -- Liam. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | (...) So why did you post to it if you already knew :-D The top bar is just for major links, Busy-Bee is my own site obviously, The Entertainer's web-site has been around for ages and was always part of the design plan because it offers online (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | (...) If you do use that as a sig, please be kind to others and put it in the standard sig format, meaning two -'s followed by a space character right before the actual sig (example at bottom of this message). That way, the sig can be stripped (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | | | | (...) Yep - Netscape usually puts the -- in there anyway. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Simon Robinson
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| | | | | | (...) Strange thing is though that your 'example' appears to consist fo two -'s followed by a carriage return (no space) :) What is this -- code anyway? I've not encountered that before Simon (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | | | | | | | dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Oops, I shouldda posted that from a real newsreader. I posted it from the web interface, which strips trailing blanks from lines to reduce line wrapping problems. (...) It's a standard NNTP/Usenet sig thing going back decades (I think). Your (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online) —Jasper Janssen
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| | | | | | (...) "\n-- \n", actually. I don't think the practice actually goes back multiple decades - remember, in 1981, people were reading NETnews on 300 baud dumb terminals.. My guess would be the sigdelimiter convention dates to the middle 80s. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: UKLUG Prototype online —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) OK, I read it. And? I may not LIVE in the UK, but I'm discussing things relevant to the UK, just as I did recently in loc.de when it looked like I might get to go there... Note followups. (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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