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Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
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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:

In lugnet.market.auction, Eric Joslin writes:

Before you ask, yes, there was a time when a major ISP payed me to • determine
things like this.

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)

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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  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) My understanding is that spelunkers are loser wannabes who get stuck in places they shouldn't be and have to be rescued by cavers. Or something like that. (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) 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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  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) 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. (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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