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Subject:Re: Sticks and stones... From:Ad absurdum per aspera <JTCHEW -at- LBL -dot- GOV> Date:Thu, 13 Oct 1994 10:26:16 -0800
>> in-continent subscribees
> I do hope this poor fellow meant inter-continental.
Well, we *were* talking not long ago about the perils of
translation and international and cross-cultural communication!
At any rate, his message to techwr-l reached me, via the Usenet
News version (bit.listserv.techwr-l) here in the US, so I suppose
everything is in working order...