Re: CHAT: A group of chums (was RE: Ebonic Xmass)

At 7:10 pm -0500 15/1/00, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>> But I think
>> one needs to remember that this list is international/ interglobal
>
>Interglobal?  You mean that people on other planets read this list?  ;-)
Sorry - I realized as the thing was being sent through cyberspace that I'd
used the wrong prefix.

_intra-global_ is what I meant to write.

But at 7:49 pm -0600 15/1/00, Patrick Dunn wrote:
>Of course!  The Hataso are monitoring a large number of Earth
>transmissions, and are plugged into the 'net.  The Advena, as well, even
>have an agent specifically dedicating to monitoring this list, making sure
>no subversive content is transmitted.
>
>That's at least two planets: Epsilon Eridani II (where the Hataso live),
>and whereever the Advena agent might be (as far as we know, there are
>twenty-four possibilities for that).
Ah - must've been some telepathic influence from one of the planets that
caused me to use the prefix inter-   :)

So let 'interglobal' stand.

Ray.

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