On  6 Aug 99 at 17:50, Mary Yost wrote:

> About our "kurfluffel":  I would like to "de-lurk" long enough to throw out
> yet two more perspectives from two different sources.
>
SNIP

The following Netiquette Guidelines you posted make a lot of sense to
me......... thanks Mary.... here is a small challenge....

Janet, my cybersis... Can you take time out from the dishes and edit
this to suit PIEnet??  thanks...murray

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