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> -----Original Message-----
> From: H Arnold
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: OT: haiku/lurking
>
> Thanks for the inquiry --
>
> -- can you please explain to me how blinkered literalist
> rules for the content of all conversation (since
> apparently no one here knows how to use the "delete"
> button) -- help you all get through your days working
> for the man -- don't benefit from off-topic conversation
> in order to lighten the load? -- a bit -- but maybe there
> is no off-topic space where you all work -- and if that's
> the case i'm very sorry to hear it -- in very truth --
> maybe you only ever read technical manuals and have
> discussions about COBOL and whatever it is and have no
> contact with the world outside and for gods sakes can't
> see any point in anything but thinking about work -- and
> i for one don't believe a word of such a characterization
> --
>
> -- as for the context for this particular OT post i have a
> few choice words which i will express elsewhere
>
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