Subject: Re: Silly question

From: [email-masked] (Edward Yagi)
Date: 1 May 1995 21:21:58 GMT

Isaac Hepworth ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Silly question, but the right place to put it I think :

: Why is pine called pine?

>From what I understand, pine stands for   P ine  I s  N ot  E lm

*shrug*

or should that be..

*shrub*

Edward yagi

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From: [email-masked] (John Andrea)
Date: 9 May 1995 12:41:11 -0300

>I think they are following the convention of naming the MUA
>after street names. elm, pine - what next? spruce, walnut,
>chestnut......

>Madhu

There already is a 'spruce', its an Xmail interface but i don't think
its become very popular (or is that poplar!)
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