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[Michael Hoffman]

[Aahz]
>>>And who is "me", anyway?

[me]
>>It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
>>a conversation between two people,

[Grant Edwards]
> Since when is a Usenet news group a conversation between two
> people?

Now there are three. At that time only two people had participated in 
this thread.

Is there really confusion about who "me" is? I find that mystifying.
-- 
Michael Hoffman