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Re: [OM] Need help on my final!

Subject: Re: [OM] Need help on my final!
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:02:10 -0500
At 20:56 7/18/02, Gary Edwards wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> At 18:13 7/18/02, Larry wrote:
> >And what's this "N*k*n" and "C*non" stuff anyway?
>
> It prevents search engines from cataloging the Olympus digest archives
> under the proper spelling of those names to reduce clutter of irrelevant

Gee, I thought it was because we didn't like them and couldn't bring
ourselves to type the awful names. . . .

Gary

Well . . . OK, that too.

Seriously . . . IIRC in "The Jargon," the transitive verb "munge" describes doing this for a variety of reasons.

-- John


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