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From Matthew Thomas <mpt...@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
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· 10 Sep 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >... > > ObASCII: > > BTW: What does this ObSomething stuff mean? Can one please explain it > to me? >... *ob-* (usually capitalized) adj. /Usenet and mailing lists./ obligatory. Prefixed to a noun, indicating that the following text is a token contribution to the nominal topic of the group or list. Employed by some groups and lists as a way of encouraging the group or list to stay on-topic. Examples: ObQuote [alt.quotations]; ObASCII [alt.ascii-art]; obasr [alt.sysadmin.recovery]. I'm thinking of submitting it for the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. But first I have to go and find the second edition and make sure it's not there, and then I think I have to find a printed citation somewhere. ttfn -- Matthew `mpt' Thomas http://critique.net.nz/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,994f997772e6452c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Matthew Thomas <mpt...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Ob- Date: 1999/09/10 Message-ID: <37D...@student.canterbury.ac.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 523304668 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7r6iq2$nb0$1...@news101.telia.com> <199...@ng-cn1.aol.com> <slr...@pc9601.sie.siemens.at> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: University of Canterbury (opinions expressed are my own) Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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