From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 8:31:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B558B14E3E for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id SAA18183 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:31:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m10Sk9t-000WyZC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:17:33 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Date: 1 Apr 1999 18:17:30 +0200 Message-ID: <7e066q$9i7$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> References: <7dml0r$v3b$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <19990401095420.J1985@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Mitchell wrote: > Hee hee, UK-centric addresses! Well, it makes a change from always being > asked for your 'state' and 'zip code', when you have neither. To answer > your question though, the first one should be obvious and you don't need to > worry about the other unless you have a Switch card... Indeed, now that it has been pointed out to me that "postcode" (a Briticism?) means postal code, aka "ZIP code" in American parlance, and that "Switch" is a credit card company (never heard of them before), the form starts to positively make sense. Amazing how a sum of small things can throw you off. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de carpe librum: books 'n' reviews To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message