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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:28

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:27:09 -0700, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> On 25 Mar 2018 10:16:22 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>On 2018-03-24, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>>      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.

It wasn't too good punching every hole on a card punch either.

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