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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: ***Asterisks***
Message-ID: <900@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 12:50:00 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.900
Posted: Fri Mar  9 12:50:00 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 00:37:27 EST
References: <5500001@hpfclg.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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In article <5500001@hpfclg.UUCP> dp@hpfclg.UUCP writes:
>**Nothing** **irritates** **me** **more** **than** **asterisks**
>**placed** **around** **words** **to** **emphasize** **them**.
>**It** **only** **makes** **the** **text** **more** **difficult**
>**to** **read**.

If NOTHING irritates you more than @i(that), you must be the //happiest\\
person in the whole _w_o_r_l_d.

'Twere nice if cultural differences were our only differences.

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall