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• henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) wrote: >The trouble is that getdate() is relatively >costly and Geoff is reluctant to run it on every single article .
  ..and then all sorts of people started coming up with rube goldberg schemes to avoid parsing dates....
• And in the news: Check out the next message.
• Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) -- Stafford Bee
• If you're working on your dissertation and you're reading Usenet, add six months to your graduation date.
• kiboze v. [Usenet] To grep the Usenet news for a string, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up.
  This activity was popularised by Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2)....
• Bad news drives good news out of the media. -- Lee Loevinge
• There is news.
• kiboze: [USENET] v. To {grep} the USENET news for a string, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up.
  This activity was popularised by Kibo (see {KIBO}, sense 2). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...