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Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:40:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > In lugnet.market.auction, Eric Joslin writes:
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> > > Before you ask, yes, there was a time when a major ISP payed me to • determine
> > > things like this.
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> > c/payed/paid/ unless your investigations involved being lowered by rope
> > vertically downward over the edge of buildings or cliffs, and to peer into • the
> > dens of spammers and see what they were up to (1). (2)
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> Thinking of hanging from ropes and looking into windows, several years
> ago, I observed that the window washers were using caving originated
> rapel gear to lower themselves down the wall to do the windows.
Caving or climbing? I thought climbing was a bigger hobby (not *better* mind
you, I know you're a caver through and through).
Caver or Spelunker? The latter term is out of favor, no? Why?
Rapel or Rappel? (just can't stop looking for t7pos, I want everyone else to
be misteak free too)
++Lar
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| (...) Caving. Rappel equipment certainly did originate with climbers, but the rappel rack is definitely a caver invention (and what I saw the window washers using is definitely a rappel rack like the kind invented by cavers). I think some climbers (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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