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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: REQ:***********READ THIS PLEASE************
Date: 2 Jul 1996 01:13:24 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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Message-ID: <4r9t3k$459@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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In article <4qv1ma$53b@apollo.isisnet.com>, <ap748@ccn.cs.dal.ca> wrote:
>If none of this has anything to do with this newsgroup please forgive me.
No problem, getting something for nothing is what this Internet thingy's
all about, isn't it?
>If you have any software, hardware, or anything that has to do with
>computers(not books) that you don't want anymore please email me telling
>me what the object is and then I will give you my snail-mail address so
>you can send it to me! (You pay shipping and handling, I am not paying
>anything!).
Hmm. You wouldn't happen to be in the antiques trade, would you?
("Sorry Madam, but your late husband's collection of original
Chippendale furniture is only fit for firewood. Tell you what though,
if you give us fifty quid for our trouble, we might take it off your
hands").
>Don't think that I am one of those sellers that buy or get stuff easily
>and then sell it!
Wouldn't dream of it! The very idea of paying money is obviously
anathema to you.
>I am using a 80286 computer, cga monitor, no graphics,
>and with very limited memory!
Ha! I'm using a Babbage Differential Logarithmic Engine (costs a
fortune in coal, but I should have the FreeBSD port finished by the
millenium).
>I don't trade, I don't buy, I don't sell!
You don't smoke, don't drink, what do you do?
>So please respond to this posting, thank you.
You're welcome!
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/