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Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday 09 February 2008 04:35:35 Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> *This .sig left intentionally blank*
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It did? Where did it leave for?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That reminds me of the pages in the IBM service manuals. They would put
>> that on the "blank" pages. My questions was always this: If it has
>> that on it, is it blank? :/
>>
>
> In fact, my .sig is entirely blank. I just always type the same thing by
> hand after writing every email, and have been doing so for long enough to
> forget if there was actually a good reason to do so originally. There may
> have also been a good reason I didn't make it "*This .sig intentionally
> left blank*", which would match the word order of the IBM manuals (and the
> door in Zork).
>
> The IBM manuals actually had a good reason. I think it was that they were
> in loose-leaf binders so they could mail people new versions of individual
> chapters, and each chapter was therefore on pieces of paper that weren't
> shared with any other chapter (this also required page numbers like 6-15).
> This meant that if a chapter ended on a right-hand page, the other side of
> the paper couldn't have anything on it. But if it were actually blank,
> people would worry that it was a misprint (if two sheets stuck together in
> the printer and then came unstuck before shipping, this could happen). So
> they wanted to print something innocuous on that side.
>
> -Daniel
> *This .sig left intentionally blank*
>


This is funny, I used to put the IBM manuals together in my spare time.
LOL That was how they did it too. You get a new fresh one and they
just updated the pages that were changed. I used to also try to figure
out what was changed. Saw a couple that had typos. Most of the time it
was a serious change. I guess they made changes to the boards so that
led to the manual being changed too.

I also worked in a print shop. So yea, the pages can stick together
sometimes. I've had it happen to me a few times. Humidity in the south
makes them sticky.

Memories. . . . .

Dale

:-) :-) :-)
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