>><ignorance category="jargon"> >>What's a slashover? >></ignorance> > >An artifact of the typewriter. Words or phrases "struck out" with a slash >so they could still be read, the humor coming from the idea that the author >had first written something and then changed his mind, but you could see >his original thought. Ah, that's similar to a practice I used to see a lot in Usenet, execpt utilizing ^H (which stands for control-H, which is the ASCII equivilent of a backspace). _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail