Re: Usenet Legal Problems?

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:16 -0400, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 23 Jun 2008 11:41:35 -0700, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

tony cooper filted:

I would imagine that most people find alt.usage.english as the result
of a cross-post or web search on a question. I know that I did.

Really?...I was invited to visit because I'd been talking about aue-ish stuff on
another group....

(Found that other group by way of a web search, though)....r

If this was an by-invitation-only group I'd still be behind the ropes.

That needs to be "were", not "was", and "ropes" connotes an arena
rather than a library, a dining room or where ever gentlefolk hold
discussions these days.
--

Regards,

Chuck Riggs
Near Dublin, Ireland
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