In
<capd5f5o4mxgbx35dfnbl6bfkx6x6v0bl-_myln_qfwqdy4d...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 01/15/2012
   at 06:44 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:

>The character '_' does not have this function.  It cannot indeed be
>used in this way. 

Not only can it be used in that way, it *has* been used in that way
and is still used in that way. The software doing so was very common
at one time.

>To call it an underscore is thus at once incorrect
>and rather silly.

To make such a claim is at once incorrect and rather silly.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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