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Re: Origin Of Filename ... text and civilization? doomsday?

From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers, alt.english.usage, alt.usage.english, alt.paranormal.spells.hexes.magic, alt.chinese.fengshui, alt.magick
Subject Re: Origin Of Filename ... text and civilization? doomsday?
Date 2026-09-02 13:00 -0700
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
Message-ID <20260902130013.00004832@gmail.com> (permalink)
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 12:36:10 -0700
Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> wrote:

> >> Maybe the clay tablets we found were just student work to master
> >> etching tools.  
> > 
> > One does wonder, but I'd imagine that, much as medieval scribes used
> > wax for an erasable "scratchpad" medium, they probably did the same.
> > I'd have to read up on it, though.  
> 
> The clay tablets could just be smoothed out and written over.

True enough, at least until they dried out/were fired.

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