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    Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Erm, this IS .fun, right? So I can nitpick?? Yes? thanks. Well, then... I think "off of" is incorrect usage in this context. RWRATP(1), but I think it is just "is off maternity leave". Me, I get confused, so I would have written it as "has (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Jasper Janssen
   (...) Larry? Look around this virtual space. What is it you see? Exactly. Jasper (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Something non IBMish. Perhaps, just perhaps, I wasn't talking to you(1), and wasn't talking about newsgroups(2). Forums are a peculiar, IBM specific thing that significantly predate the widespread adoption of newsgroups. They were dying out, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Tim Courtney
     (...) ^^^^^ I suppose you should change your signature, then. <ducks, runs> :) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Jasper Janssen
   (...) Never. (...) A newsgroup is a forum. (...) They were essentially an early implementation of news, much as has been developed in a lot of places (various universities had an imp, DEC had one, Xerox PARC probably had one..). Direct precursors to (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Dark Gray Tanker —Steven Vore
   "Jasper Janssen" <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote ... (...) Hey hey hey... I *still* consider NOTES (a.k.a. VAXNotes, later renamed to be more corporately-correct to VMSNotes, I believe, even though there are clients for almost every platform used (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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