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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:27

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On 25 Mar 2018 10:16:22 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-03-24, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:

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>>      Why asterisks?  Wouldn't "-" or "_" have worked better?
>
>Fuck knows. It was over 40 years ago.

     I thought I might be missing something.

     I do recall a story about overprinting on a mainframe printer --
it might have been here even -- where the paper disintegrated.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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