Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/11/63 11:36

On 4 Jan 2006 13:27:55 -0800, "NYC XYZ" <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com>
Gave us:

>I'm not disagreeing with you. Just pointing out that paper presses
>understand capital M (how the Romans used to write it -- there was no
>such thing as lower-case then) as one thousand.
>
Rome fell a LONG time ago, as have many "paper presses".

Try to refrain from top posting in Usenet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-post

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