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   Ross Clark to All   
   SOS became the international maritime di   
   03 Oct 24 23:35:30   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   ...---...   
   At the First International Radiotelegraph Convention, in Berlin. The   
   Germans had already begun using this signal.   
      
   "neither so short as to be ambiguous nor so long as to be unwieldy"   
   (Crystal worded this with "too", which seems wrong.)   
      
   It's technically a _prosign_ (procedural sign) -- a single unit, not a   
   letter sequence.   
      
   it's an _ambigram_ -- reads the same when flipped over (useful if you've   
   written it on the ground and people are searching for you from different   
   directions...)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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