In a message dated 97-08-15 11:13:41 EDT, you write:

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 This morning when I checked my email I had received 14 messages from
 PICLIST overnight.  Great I thought, until I found out that 4 or 5 of them
 were about the number of fingers owned by a Martian and building a PIC
 based spaceship, and 4 of them were a continuation of the (now) esoteric
 risk assessment thread (please TAKE THIS ONE OFFLINE! or to the actuarial
 list, if it exists).  Several more were a (progressively less) humorous
 continuation of the OTP erasing thread.  The remaining messages were about
 the embedded controller conference or a new compiler.

 Not one message was about PIC's themselves.  Have we forgotten why we are
 following this list?

 JMNSHO - Martin R. Green
 elimar@bigfoot.com
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And one message whineing about other messages