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Subject:Re: the technical name for the #? From:Bill Swallow/commsoft <wswallow -at- COMMSOFT -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:55:40 -0500
I don't know about the rest of you, but my opinion of what '#' should be
called has been swayed by the list. I now call it 'the damn glyph that's
burying my inbox'. I now have a big poster of the octothorpoundhashamajig
with a big red 'x' through it hanging over my monitor. ;-)
