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From: Richard Landes
> >...my new version of Eudora (the one with those chili peppers to
advise of
>"flaming" messages--Richard,why have all of your messages rated three
>chilies??)
i think it's becauses of the use of words like antichrist (when i write
it,
i get two chilis). i've often wondered why. i think the system was
built
for non-academic discussions and assumes that when you speak of
antichrist
(got my third) and the like, you mean it. i think you'll note that all
the
postings about and deriving from andrew gow's article have three chilis.
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Thank you for sharing this information, Richard. It is important to
note that content, considered out of context, can be wildly
misinterpreted.
I wonder what content, in the Middle Ages, would have given rise to the
medieval equivalent of the chilli pepper? And indeed: what was the
medieval equivalent of the chilli pepper?
Enquiring minds want to know; in the meantime, back to my preferred
holiday reading, the *National Enquirer*. (True...)
Best wishes to all list members, in the hope that any celebrations you
may have had on 25 December were pleasant (and, as those who watch good
television will appreciate, very unlike the events that unfolded on
Albert Square on the show *EastEnders*),
George Ferzoco
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