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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Oct 1998.
Re: Discouraging...

Re: Discouraging...

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:48:23 -0500, Nate / DAC <nat...@southwind.net> wrote:

[snip]
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>                            _.-,-'-|-`-.-._
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>                           (C) MCMLXXXXVIII
>
>You're supposed to use roman numerals at the end, everyone knows that! :-)

Hmm, BBC uses MCMXCVIII.
Also MXMVIII has been proposed.
But than of course I'd rather use MVMIII.

On many US TV series they do use 1998.
Probably because the viewers wouldn't understand.
But then again, the viewers couldn't care less,
so it must be a legal thing.

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From: k.i...@12345net.nl (Johan de Koning)
Subject: Re: Discouraging...
Date: 1998/10/02
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