Subject: english name of the pound symbol on the telephone

From: "Michael Holzberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 08:48:45 -0500

Can you tell me what the official name is of the pound symbol on the
telephone?  I think its prefix is octa....

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Dec 1997 14:52:06 +0100

>> "MH" == Michael Holzberg <[email-masked]> writes:

MH> Can you tell me what the official name is of the pound symbol on
MH> the telephone?  I think its prefix is octa....

No, it's octo. As in octopus. 

Ummm... is this really the pine list? I've got more requests for
mailbombs, name changes and squid than anything else.

Robin - puzzled

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
"Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you?"
(Patrick Volkerding)

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Dec 1997 15:27:25 +0100

>>>>> "RSS" == Robin S Socha <[email-masked]> writes:

 RSS> No, it's octo. As in octopus.

 RSS> Ummm... is this really the pine list? I've got more requests for
 RSS> mailbombs, name changes and squid than anything else.

Oh Robin, 

you misunderstand the purpose of this list - it's an *info* list in
the first place ;-) After we've waded through all these, quite
interesting and thought provoking topics, we'll might be enlighted by
a reosnable (technical) pine question ... "how do I change the default
From: header line?" }8-)

 RSS> Robin - puzzled

just my 2p, norbert

Btw, where's your X-Attribution entry for f*'s sake? I don't want to
set it up by hand :-)

-- 
Norbert Koch
a rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing!

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Dec 1997 16:06:24 +0100

>> "NK" == Norbert Koch <[email-masked]> writes:

RSS> Ummm... is this really the pine list? I've got more requests for
RSS> mailbombs, name changes and squid than anything else.
NK> you misunderstand the purpose of this list - it's an *info* qlist
NK> in the first place ;-) After we've waded through all these, quite
NK> interesting and thought provoking topics, we'll might be enlighted
NK> by a reasonable (technical) pine question ... "how do I change the
NK> default From: header line?" }8-)

Yo Norbert! 

Lo and behold, I just solved the magic from-line mystery. Too bad Ray
Cu**ings isn't on this list anymore. The answer is qmail as a sendmail
replacement.

NK> Btw, where's your X-Attribution entry for f*'s sake? I don't want
NK> to set it up by hand :-)

It's a super-cite thing. You can tell it to disobey the X-attribution.
Mine is right here, though:

(setq  message-news-headers ;;* or message-mail-headers...
       "X-URL: http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/
       X-PGP-Fingerprint: F1 9F 15 68 23 52 BC 9A  E8 B6 9C C2 BC 6C 67 6C
       X-Attribution: Robin
")

Neato-clean solution courtesy of Hrvoje Niksic. Check my .emacs right
here -> <http://franck.pc.uni-koeln.de/~robin/xemacs.html> Too bad
pine doesn't have clickable urls. Heheheee... 

Have a nice weekend all,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha M.A.
>Linux is not user-friendly.
It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.

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From: Matt Simmons <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Dec 1997 19:06:11 -0800

>>>>> "MH" == Michael Holzberg <[email-masked]> writes:

    MH> Can you tell me what the official name is of the pound symbol
    MH> on the telephone?  I think its prefix is octa....

You were thinking perhaps of octothorpe?

Matt

-- 
     Matt Simmons  -  [email-masked]  -  http://www.netcom.com/~simmonmt
    Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting
	    where you heard it.  --Laurence Peter.  Canadian writer