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Subject:Re: picky-picky From:Margaret Gerard <margaret -at- TOSHIBA -dot- TIC -dot- OZ -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:12:40 EST
Chuck said:
Someone suggested "exercising" [sic] long quotations of previous messages
in the interests of improving the ratio of new info to included info.
Wouldn't we be better off _exorcising_ quoted stuff?
Surely the original poster meant to type "excising". Excise (noun) = tax,
excise (verb) = to cut out or away.
