From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 10 17:27:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53A0237B78F for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.75]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000611002723.MMSU290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:27:23 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01124; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:27:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:27:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jamie Jones Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Power to Serve England Message-ID: <20000611012722.I233@parish> References: <20000611003809.G233@parish> <200006110014.BAA95981@bishopston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006110014.BAA95981@bishopston.net>; from jamie@bishopston.net on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:14:05AM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:14:05AM +0100, Jamie Jones wrote: > > > Having actually visited the URL in the original post I find: > > > > There are MANY news hierarchies related to this part of the > > world including, but not limited to: > > > > uk.* > > scot.* > > wales.* > > ie.* (Ireland) > > ni.* (Northern Ireland) > > south-wales.* > > > > england.* is the newest hierarchy to join the fold. > > > > So perhaps I should be asking "What are so special about the scot.* > > and wales.* groups, as to not include we English" > > > > [ducks and runs] :) > > After my post, I noticed those too.. I didn't know all those existed.. > Damn, I hoped you wouldn't see them :-) > > If they contains things more "generic" than: > > wales.sheep-shagging ROFL. I can relate to that. After all, I was dancing with a blow-up sheep in the pub last night :-/ > wales.mining > wales.valleychoirs > wales.funny-languages-with-loads-of-vowels.gogogoch Yes, I can pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwilllantysiliogoggoch (why does ispell(1) show that as an unknown word?) > wales.taffy-ate-my-leek > scot.haggis > scot.caber-tossing > > etc., then I'd have to agree with you! > > :-) > > Cheers, Jamie > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Want a lean, mean, computing machine? Get rid of that excess FAT - install FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message