heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
Scott Alfter schrieb:In article <4_mdnZ38l9FMZz3YnZ2dnUVZ_qHinZ2d@giganews.com>, I reported the assclown to NewsGuy. This morning, I received email from them saying that his account has been 86'd.LOL - I wonder where this number comes from... ;-)
There seems to be a lot of debate and mythology about that. I always thought that is was from a numeric communication code used by amateur (and other?) radio operators in the early days-- the same one in which 73 meant "best regards". ISTR that 86 stood for "goodbye", meaning "this is my final transmission". I just tried to find a listing of the numeric codes and was unsuccessful, but they used to be in the ARRL Handbook. -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."