Why did they publish 'blank' pages

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon Feb 17 01:25:01 2003

> Megan, in a recent post (and probably every other post, but I wasn't
> looking) has included in her sig line the following text;
>
> +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
> | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: mbg at world.std.com |
> | | |
> | "this space | (s/ at /_at_/) |
> | unavoidably left blank" | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
> | | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
> | (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
> +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
>
> Can anybody shed some light on the origin and use of the term "This
> space intenionally left blank"?

If you were to look up her older postings in the archives (or Usenet
postings which you can find in Google), you could probably figure it
out. The "DEC '77-'98" toward the bottom is a big hint, compare her
pre-98 and post-98 postings.

Eric
Received on Mon Feb 17 2003 - 01:25:01 GMT

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