[net.news] The line-eater lives ...

gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) (09/30/85)

The following, in "R" format, is one of the few line-eaten articles I have
seen recently.  Any SA along the path care to 'fess up?

>To: amdcad!amd!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!ihnp4!cbosgd!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!chim
>Subject: Re: Lead in Gasoline (it's going away)
>Newsgroups: net.auto
>In-Reply-To: <2939@ncsu.UUCP>
>References: <637@wjh12.UUCP> There was a huge discussion on this a
>Organization: Tektronix, Inc. (CAE Systems Division), Sunnyvale, CA
>Cc: 
>Bcc: 
>
>while back.  The majority of articles seem to
>indicate that perhaps some lead is needed for
>old car valve lubrication but not the amounts
>we use.  I also thought that lead is not
>disappearing, just being dramatically reduced.

gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) (03/28/86)

The article header was as follows:
 From amdcad!decwrl!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero!solomon 20 Mar 86 20:37:09 GMT
 Article 2601 of net.nlang:
 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site cae780.UUCP
 Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site aero.ARPA
 Path: cae780!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero!solomon
 From: solomon@aero.ARPA (Steve Solomon)
 Newsgroups: net.nlang
 Subject: Derivation of `Moscow'
 Message-ID: <337@aero.ARPA>
 Date: 20 Mar 86 20:37:09 GMT
 Date-Received: 22 Mar 86 10:55:08 GMT
 Reply-To: solomon@aero.UUCP (Steve Solomon)
 Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
 Lines: 48

 ond to
 something like `of the Ivans' and `of the Pauls' since they have
 genitive plural endings, and are similar to Johnson and Paulson.
 Perhaps the sense of `of the Ivans' is: a person with a family name
		...
 Another beer, `Michelob' did not undergo  the consonant mutation to
 German first, and was probably `Mikhailov' a name like `Michaelson' in
 the original.

If your site is along the path
cae780!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero
think about it ...

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.
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