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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All    |
|    Re: SPRs and vmssoftware.com    |
|    08 Aug 25 21:27:57    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 14:23:20 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:              > On 8/8/2025 2:21 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:       >>       >> No need to read between, just stay on line.       >> In my part of the universe "several hundred" means just that,       >> "less than thousand".       >       > What do you call the year 1999? The year one thousand nine hundred and       > ninety nine?              Depends on whether it’s a marketing person saying it, to whom larger       numbers (or larger-sounding numbers) are better numbers.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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