End of ADS-L Digest - 17 Apr 1994 to 18 Apr 1994

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There are 4 messages totalling 111 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Bounced Mail

 2. ink pen

 3. stalking horse

 4. Cajun query



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Date:  Tue, 19 Apr 1994 06:30:24 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



Reminder: When including a previous list posting in something you're

sending to the list, be sure to edit out all references to ADS-L in the

headers. Otherwise, your message will bounce. It's a LISTSERV loop-

preventive measure.  Natalie



> From: BITNET list server at UGA (1.7f) <LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU

>

> The enclosed mail file, found in the ADS-L reader and shown under the spoolid

> 2827 in the console log, has been identified as a possible delivery error

> notice for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field

> pointing to the list has been found in mail body.

>

>-------------------- Message in error (41 lines) -------------------------

> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 23:43:35 -0400 (EDT)

> From: "Connie C. Eble" <cceble[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gibbs.oit.unc.edu>

> Subject: Re: "basement"

>

> "basement" was the word we used in elementary school in the late 1940s in

> New Orleans. The school actually had no basement, but the restrooms for

> the girls and boys were on ground level at the rear of the building

> beside the short flight of stairs that led out the rear of the building.

>                      Connie Eble

>

>

> On Thu, 14 Apr 1994 mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU wrote:

>

> > Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 10:59:21 -0500

> > From:mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU

> > Subject: Re: "basement"

> >

> > Like Keith, I went to school about the same time Natalie did -- actually,

> > a few years earlier (1st grade 1946). This is the first time I have ever

> > heard of "basement" for bathroom (my perspective is northern Illinois).

> >

> > Until Jr. High school, it was always "bathroom" ; my parents used "biffy"

> > (which is a no. regionalism, according to DARE) but I never picked it up.

> > In early adolescenece, some of my male peers got daring and used "john"

> > and "can."

> >

> > Tim Frazer

> >