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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!!TOAL
- Message-ID: <9301021708.AA12156@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:08:49 GMT
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Graham Toal
- <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year!
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :But think of us poor bystanders to this argument: if you can't be original,
- :take it to private mail.
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- I'd take it to /dev/null if he'd take his biblical tracts there too.
- I don't know how much usenet you do, but there's been a depressingly high
- volume lately of loony xtians dumping their tracts on totally uninterested
- groups - it's getting worse than the junk mailings from commercial
- companies that we had last year. I can just about stomach it on usenet
- where I have / god /:j in my global kill file, but this stuff comes
- directly into my mailbox and I find unsolicited religious tripe grossly
- offensive.
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- G
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