wrote


Actually, there ARE those. Only one of them has been in this
newsgroup (Carl Stevenson)...and has been roundly booed or
snubbed by those "ancient, silly old men" you mentioned.


"Only one"?

Present company excepted, how about these representative examples just for
starters....

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....KA9Q
....WB9IVR(SK)
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