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 Message 811 
 Mike Powell to ROB MCCART 
 bell's way, and batts 
 24 Aug 25 10:11:44 
 
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> ... I
> often find myself stopping a certain Tagline from posting on a
> message where it could be misinterpreted as a negative comment on
> the person who wrote the message.

You know, people didn't used to take offense like that but now that is a
good policy as I have seen people mistake taglines for something the author
actually typed manually into their message.

> Plus a lot of them are out of
> date to the point where they would confuse a lot of people or they
> refer to people who were frequent BBS users 25 or 30 years ago but
> are no longer around..

I have a few that refer to the Clinton era that I understand but I bet
others either don't or would no longer find funny -- too much has happened
since!  :D

Mike


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