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From: nather@utastro.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: letter endings
Message-ID: <449@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 12:05:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: utastro.449
Posted: Wed Jul  6 12:05:18 1983
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I have noticed several usable "closings" on net messages, but I think
each medium (pl: media) needs its own set.  I doubt a single one will
do for all purposes.  I rather like "cheers", used most often after a
violent entry in net.flame to soften the impact.  Also the notation
"...not afraid to (summarizing phrase), ..." seems unique to the net.
For snail mail, a friend of mine uses

               r   bt   vnt
              Y   O    S

a marvelouly archaic abbreviation for "your obedient servant," a phrase
so obviously exaggerated it acts as parody for the whole silly process.
(It loses in translation to CRT screen -- he uses elegant caligraphy to
form the letters, as from a quill pen.)

                                        Ed Nather
                                    ...hao!kpno!utastro