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Subject:Re: Movement "Afoot" to Re-order English Alphabet
From:mike miller
Date:Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:54:55 -0700

Give up, fool!  If the god gates has decreed it, it will be so!

Now where'd I put my aluminum hat?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marshall Ruskin" <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 9:01 PM
Subject: Movement "Afoot" to Re-order English Alphabet

> Hi Volks:
>
> I thought that I had heard it all.
>
> Apparently Microsoft is leading some international consortium to set the
> standards for the re-ordering of the English alphabet!
>
> Apparently, computers can work much better, if the most commonly used
> letters are first in line - and the least commonly used ones are pushed
> farther back - it's got something to do with code efficiency and
increasing
> the speed of the internet.
>
> I personally don't want them to do this - what do you think?
>
>
> Marshall Ruskin
> 84 Westy "Leader of the Pack"
> Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
> "It's Friday" Member of "Vanagons Anonymous"
>