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From: kriha_p@actrix.gen.nz (Paul J. Kriha)
Subject: Re: Keyboard symbols:  @, $, etc.
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tim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw wrote:
>I know that this is a lot to ask, but could anyone posting material on
>origins, foreign names, and colloquial names for keyboard symbols (@, $,
>etc.) also e-mail their posts to me?  I've only lately discovered that
>the dime-store system they have set up for us in Kuwait doesn't carry all
>postings to this newsgroup (and the ones not carried must be random; certainly
>no one here is screening them).
>
>Anyhow, I'd appreciate it very much.
>
>Tim Scott
>tim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw

Also all posters should check the keyword in the Distribution
field.  It should say 'world'.  If it doesn't then the posts
don't make outside posters' countries.

Paul JK
