On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:59:16 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Australians  (and Tasmanians) cannot reasonably be deprived of exclusive
> rights to the platypus/platypodes pair; but I am not prepared to surrender
> the [antipus]/antipodes pair to them too.  Like octopus/octopodes, it should
> be shared with the rest of us.
> 
"Antipus", however appropriately, is a genus of pterosaur.  I understand
your concern, but it bothers me far less than the trendy abuse of "left"
and "right" for "west" and "east".  Imagine the confusion of a riverboat
captain steaming up the Mississippi:  left/right bank; port/starboard beam;
left/right whatever.
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> More seriously, we do need a set of FAQ archive references, not least in
> order to make circumstantially adequate answers to such questions as
> 
> How can SYS1.LINKLIB be expanded?
> and
> What are the job and jobstep maxima for DD statements?
> available.
and system symbols in batch JCL
and daylight saving time/ETR/CVTLSO/ ...
and IEFUSI

Wiki, anyone?

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