[OT] New toy... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Oct 2001

An aside and definatly OTis a lot of that found its way into RTTY
and a lot of those old M15s and ASR33s printed it.

Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ewing &lt;greg(a)cosc.canterbury.ac.nz&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Sunday, October 28, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] New toy...

...
 John Lawson:

     FB OM YR SIGS 599 RPT 599 QSL VIA BURO TNX ES
73 DE KB6SCO 
pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull):

> It's (mostly standard) radio ham CW (continuous wave) abbreviations, used
...
   to save keying
too much morse. 
To those dismayed at the mangulations of language being
used by some people in email these days, this just goes
to show that there's nothing new under the sun. :-)

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