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Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:25:00 +0200
From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)  wrote on 30.04.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104300255530.4113-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > I don't think I've heard anyone invoke the 4-line rule since about
> > 1992, though.  I didn't start generating short random quotes into my sig
> > until about 1996, well after the "standard" was effectively dead.
>
> <wry> We hang in different parts of USENET </wry>
>
> Last time I've seen it invoked was probably a couple of weeks ago.

I think I see it at least once a week on average. And that's gone *up*  
from earlier; in my first Usenet days (pre-Deja), I saw much less of it.


MfG Kai
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