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Re: Thank God for Lugnet
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Sun, 6 Dec 1998 00:03:42 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <36672CCE.65CFD707@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com>...
Jasper Janssen wrote:

Well, In any froup _I_'ve participasted in, over 100 (non-spam) msgs
means high-volume...

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".

Or, although the conspiracy theorists might not like it, it just so happens
that the g and the f on a qwerty keyboard are right next to each other.

Jesse

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  Re: Thank God for Lugnet
 
(...) This ia what immediately came in to my mind when I first saw the question, but I didn't wante to disturb net-vets..:-D Selçuk (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Thank God for Lugnet
 
(...) 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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