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   Peter Ceresole to Steve Hayes   
   Re: Book newsgroups dying?   
   01 Jul 09 19:30:57   
   
   XPost: alt.books.beatgeneration, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books   
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   From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote:   
      
   > Though "eternal-september" seems an odd name, it makes me think of spring   
   > flowers, but I don't see what the *name* of a server says about how well it   
   > works.   
      
   But it says plenty about the sense of humour of the people who named it.   
   In this case, plenty that's good...   
   --   
   Peter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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