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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: floating point history, word order and byte order
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:44:08 GMT
> MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Anyone still here and active ???
>
> https://www.linfo.org/rule_of_silence.html
>
> I have serious doubts about universality of wisdom of this rule in the
> field of human-machine interfaces, but for Usenet interaction it is
> golden.

Thank you for this.