[SpamCop-List] Re: spam is NOT 10 days old to me - got it this a.m.

[jg]

On 12/18/2005 10:11 AM Steven Maesslein scribbled:

> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:52:45 -0800, jg coughed into spamcop and left 
> this in <do440n$piv$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
> 
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>>In California, 12/7 is Dec. 7, not July 12.
> 
> 
> Pretty much everywhere outside the US and Canada it's July 12th. Either 
> way round, it's ambiguous, and you're not writing for a purely 
> Californian audience. Maybe something less ambiguous like 07/DEC or 
> 07/XII (if Roman numerals are used they represent the month) could be 
> used.

Ok, this isn't the subject of this group, but have to comment, Steve:
Don't know where you are, but the U.S. and Canada represent a lot of the
geographic area of 1/2 the literate world, so using the common abbrev
used in that area is not anywhere close to ambiguous, your own feelings
notwithstanding.
And I wasn't addressing California, but I'll assume you were being
jocular, as was I.
Never /heard/ of using Roman numerals in dates, and I took 4 years of
Latin way back when - and if I did, I'd get flack for that from the
speakers of non-romance...

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> 
>>12M is 12,000, not 12 million.
> 
> 12,000 would be written 12K here and 12M would indeed be 12×10^6.
> 

That may be so, but after working on Wall St. (actually, Trinity Place
and Church St., looking down Wall) since 1968 anyway,
mm indicated million in all printed matter, especially bonds.
Your feelings on the matter are your feelings - and we don't use the
metric system yet either, tho its getting closer..

Hey, we're still in the colonial stage, historically - imagine where
we'll be when we get to the age of, say, merry ole England (if we make
it there)...