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|    Paul Quinn to Tommi Koivula    |
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|    21 Oct 19 17:41:29    |
      MSGID: 3:640/1384.125 5dad6120       REPLY: 2:221/1.1 5dad58b8       PID: JamNNTPd/Linux 1       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 1000       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 0.71       Hi! Tommi,              On 10/21/2019 04:58 PM, you wrote:               TK> Very long time when fidonet was alive in Finland, the was one guy whose        TK> nick was //Albert. He was also a point of mine. Those two first signs        TK> "//" mean a remark in a certain programming language. So I started to        TK> use the remark sign of BASIC. :)               TK> You may ignore everything behind "'" .:D              Ooh. Well in that case if you ever see ::Paul, you may do the same...              (Using :: was my favourite way of doing MS-DOS BATch REMark statements. Using       that sequence instead stopped command.com from parsing a line of comment       beyond the REM, which it would still do.)              )              Cheers,       Paul.              --- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0        * Origin: Fight crime - shoot back! (3:640/1384.125)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 242 360 227/114 229/354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 1014 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 280/464 5003 5555       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 423/81 640/305 1138       SEEN-BY: 640/1321 1384 3634/12       PATH: 640/1384 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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