From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 1 17:27:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B28115383 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10SsjI-0002iN-0A; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:26:41 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id CAA00699; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:26:07 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id CAA00317; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:23:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:23:01 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chuck is cute Message-ID: <19990402022301.A262@marder-1.localhost> References: <7dml0r$v3b$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> <19990401095420.J1985@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <7e066q$9i7$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <7e066q$9i7$1@mips.rhein-neckar.de>; from Christian Weisgerber on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:17:30PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:17:30PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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 postcode, postal code, same thing really > that "Switch" is a credit card company (never heard of them before), the Switch is a Debit Card. Use it and your bank account is debited directly. You use them instead of cheques (I assume you have the same in Germany but call them something else?) -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message