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  1. Newsgroups: alt.california
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!orchard.la.locus.com!hatch!pro-palmtree!rbeban
  3. From: rbeban@pro-palmtree.socal.com (Richard Beban)
  4. Subject: Re: SIG-alert question.
  5. In-Reply-To: sylanov@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Christine V Sylanov)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Dec31.112254.918@pro-palmtree.socal.com>
  7. Sender: nobody@hatch.socal.com (unprivileged user)
  8. Organization: The Palmtree BBS - 310/453-8726 - Santa Monica, CA
  9. References: <1hrf0lINN5v1@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:22:54 GMT
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  13. The second hypothesis is the correct one, according to a story in the LA
  14. Times within the last few years.  The "Sig" was a highway department
  15. employee apparently responsible for feeding information on highway
  16. conditions to the media, which honored him with the expression SigAlert.  I
  17. presume a search in the National Newspaper Index or through whatever
  18. electronic database you can come up with would reveal the story in the
  19. Times.
  20.         
  21. I suggest narrowing the search to the last two years of Times.  I know the
  22. story was that recent.
  23.