Messages in this thread | | | Date | 30 Apr 2001 16:25:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka "I stick my neck out a mile..." |
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 30.04.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104300255530.4113-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > I don't think I've heard anyone invoke the 4-line rule since about > > 1992, though. I didn't start generating short random quotes into my sig > > until about 1996, well after the "standard" was effectively dead. > > <wry> We hang in different parts of USENET </wry> > > Last time I've seen it invoked was probably a couple of weeks ago.
I think I see it at least once a week on average. And that's gone *up* from earlier; in my first Usenet days (pre-Deja), I saw much less of it.
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