[OT] New toy...

From: Greg Ewing <greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Sun Oct 28 19:24:12 2001

John Lawson:

> FB OM YR SIGS 599 RPT 599 QSL VIA BURO TNX ES 73 DE KB6SCO

pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull):

> It's (mostly standard) radio ham CW (continuous wave) abbreviations, used
> to save keying too much morse.

To those dismayed at the mangulations of language being
used by some people in email these days, this just goes
to show that there's nothing new under the sun. :-)

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