Re: IED

[Desi The Three-Armed Wonder Comic <jondr@sco.COM>]

I am not engjs@wombat.newcastle.EDU.AU (James Smith).  I didn't say:
>In reading through my backlog of old articles recently I noticed a thread
>concerning the origin of the title IED.  Andrew's original mailing
>address was something like IEDXU01@..., and I've always assumed this
>was the source of the title.  Of course, only Andrew knows for sure.

It was IED0DXM.  I think the point was rather less "where does IED come
from" and more "what does IED *mean*"?  While five years pondering have not
led me any closer to a solution on that score, I have worked out a pretty
good theory as to where the DXM part came from...

[Regarding KBVII]
>It will be Different, and it will be Good.

I wish I had your facility with blind optimism.

-- 
Jon Drukman (finely honed machine)              uunet!sco!jondr   jondr@sco.com
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