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from "Philip" contains these words:

It odd each of us has our hangups about newsnet. My particular beef is the
posting of Off Topic posts. I know you cannot control the direction of a
thread, but to start one with a Subject line "OT: ......." just gets my
goat.

You can blame spam for that. Largely.

There's so much of it that very few people post from a valid address and
as you might have noticed, one recent attempt at transferring a
discussion to e-mail resulted in a bounce.

Only in the last year or so have I felt compelled to post from a spoof
address. And sometimes, I Myosotis not-me-not......

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Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)