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Re: Thank God for Lugnet
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:35:47 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.!spamcake!org
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> wrote:
> 4 - say I, and I have been hacking since 1977 and using usenet since
> 1983.
Wow. By a strange coincidence, 1983 is the year I first ever used a computer,
an Apple ][ (who needs lower case letters, anyway?) located in the hallway
outside of my third grade classroom.
Thus demonstrated to be a computer geek from way back, I can authoritatively
say that I sure assumed "froup" to be a typo.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) What is a froup? You have used that term a number of times now and I have no idea what it means, except in context, as some sort of cute back formation from newsgroup and something else, meaning just "newsgroup". The Jargon File (1) is silent (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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