Re: computer bootlaces

From	Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers, comp.std.misc
Subject	Re: computer bootlaces
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Date	2011-09-29 17:59 +0100
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On 2011-09-29, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

>> I do wonder, however, how inefficient it is that the US Embassy in
>> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
>> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
>
> Do you know that this actually happens?

The Embassy prints all outgoing correspondence on US letter paper, but
I don't know where they get it from.  Most of their incoming UK
correspondence (except from a few other embassies, I suppose) must be
on A4 and other DIN ISO sizes, because no-one else in the UK uses the
US sizes.  (OK, I've read in this thread that you can in fact buy US
paper in the UK, but I've never seen it for sale, and I like office
supplies.)

-- 
Oh, I am just a student, sir, and I only want to learn
But it's hard to read through the rising smoke 
                    of the books that you want to burn
                                           [Phil Ochs]

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Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-29 11:20 +0100
  Re: computer bootlaces Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2011-09-29 17:59 +0100
    Re: computer bootlaces Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-09-30 12:24 +0100

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