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Subject:the pound sign From:Tommy Trussell <twt -at- CEI -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 11 Aug 1995 21:42:40 -0500
Warning to everyone who wishes the pound sign (or any other) thread would die:
Sometimes it takes DAYS for your posts to appear, by which time the subject
has already been beaten to death, and any errors in your message will loom
ever larger. (Faulty recollection, speling problems, sentence fragments.)