From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 21 4:54:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE84337B401 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 04:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.19) with ESMTP id g4LBsRH07776; Tue, 21 May 2002 13:54:27 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020521122955.A31528@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <200205162121.g4GLLGQ43405@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020516220511.A9DBE380A@overcee.wemm.org> <20020517114010.A57127@regency.nsu.ru> <20020519100324.GK44562@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20020519134348.I67779@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020520195703.A79046@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020521122955.A31528@chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Outlook will expire in 3 days. Please contact Microsoft about purchasing a new license. Remember: software piracy is a felony! Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:54:30 +0200 To: Tony Finch , Brad Knowles From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: email vs. e-mail, was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:29 PM +0100 2002/05/21, Tony Finch wrote: > I have an Oxford Encyclopaedic Dictionary from 1991 that lists email as > the primary usage. I expect the same to be true for the full dictionary, > but I don't have convenient access to a copy. I was going to look up the current usage via the online service, but then discovered that it costs UK £350+VAT/ US $550 per year for a personal license (see ). Riiiiiiight. Tell ya what. I'll consider switching usage when I can find a freakin' copy of the goddam thing that is being sold fourth or fifth-hand, and at a price I can bloody afford. Oh, and it has to demonstrate this usage as being primary, too. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message