Because some mail programmes dont have the £ sign in their vocabulary and
come up with a figure that is the number in ascii. To avoid confusion one
needs an acronym that everybody knows.
IMO
Trefor
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> Sent: 09 September 1998 14:54
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> Subject: Thick question
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>
> I know this is very very very thick of me, but why do you write
> UKP rather
> than £ when you quote prices?
>
> Grace
>
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