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From: steve@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: references
Message-ID: <4773@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 16:09:29 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.4773
Posted: Tue Feb  7 16:09:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:35:26 EST
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
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Here is the contents of an article recently submitted here.  

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> 2.  Your use of the term agoraphobia is curious.  Are you sure you are using
>     the right word?  Agoraphobia means fear of crowds.

>From "The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language":

	ag-o-ra-pho-bi-a n.  Abnormal fear of open spaces.  [New Latin :
	Greek *agora*, open space, AGORA + -PHOBIA.]

Since his quote was:

	In your congested state (...), where you get agoraphobic
	if there isn't a car within a meter of yours,

his use is not curious at all, it is completely correct.  He is using the
right word.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy

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	Does anyone else find this type of letter extremely annoying?  I am
a regular reader of stuff on the net and absolutely hate it when someone
starts their article with "I wholly agree with you...", or "You are
right..."!!!  Who is the "you" that the person is refering to?  Is this
anyway to write a letter?  Just because people submit a follow up letter
doesn't mean that the article is going to be the next consecutive article
that will appear in any given news group.  Please include some modest
reference to the person or news article to which you are responding and
people will have a better idea of what you are saying.

	Apologies to Guy Harris for making an example of him but this
annoying practice must stop!

	steve hammond
	uucp: (seismo | allegra)!rochester!steve
	arpa: steve@rochester