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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Mar 1995.
Re: Longest Thread Ever

Re: Longest Thread Ever

In article <pgettle.795227556@hubcap>,
Paul Gettle <pge...@hubcap.clemson.edu> wrote:
)gen...@bbs.theporch.com (gene wright) writes:
)
))What's a thread?
)
)
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)  D:::::D    D:::::D    UUUUUU  UUUUUU   H::::H HHHHH         ??:??    ?:::?
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)
)
)[Credit where credit's due. I got this ascii Duh? from someone in 
)rec.arts.comic.xbooks, who got it from someone in sci.skeptic. Thanks]
)
)
)     -- Paul Gettle (pge...@hubcap.clemson.edu)
)
)BTW: a thread is a string of follow-up posts in a newsgroup. Hope this helps.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

BTW you misspelled "massively linked list that is slowly consuming usenet".
Hope this helps.

-- 
( sco...@cs.arizona.edu | http://helpdesk.ccit.arizona.edu/~scott )

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From: sco...@CS.Arizona.EDU (Scott E Gilbert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.religion.kibology,alt.starfleet,alt.fan.monty-python,alt.ascii-art,rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Longest Thread Ever
Date: 15 Mar 1995 19:10:39 -0700
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