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godz...@webtv.net

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Someone at work gave me this riddle the other day and none of us
(including the person who gave it to me) can figure it out. It goes
like this.

There are three words the English lanquage that end in "gry" . One is
hungry and one is angry. Everyone knows what the third word means and
we use them everyday. And if you've listened closely I've already given
you the third word. What is it?

If anyone can find the answer or knows already, please E-mail me. Thank
you

Keith Lloyd

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godz...@webtv.net wrote:

must... control... fist... of... death...


Frederic Weed

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with an extra F

Timothy Reed

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In article <6dm7mc$lti$1...@newsd-134.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
godz...@webtv.net wrote:


THREE WORDS ENDING IN "GRY" ANSWER CHAIN LETTER

Forget those chain letters and pyramid schemes that promise to spread
wealth, power, and love. Here's one that spreads knowledge! And it's
absolutely FREE!

My name is not even remotely Dave Rhodes. Still, two years ago I had a big
problem. At work, at home, even on the street, people would come up to me
and say:

"Hey, what other English word besides
angry and hungry ends in "gry"?

It drove me nuts. I'd explain THE ANSWER to them, only to have someone new
ask me a few days later. I even started getting e-mail from strangers
asking me if I knew THE ANSWER. I drank to avoid it. I stayed home and
shut my blinds. I quit my job. I was reduced to a feeble, trembling
introvert.

THEN I REALIZED that I could change all that with a simple plan! Start
spreading THE ANSWER so that everyone on the planet would know it and
they'd stop asking!

The only thing I ask in return for giving you this answer is that YOU give
it to at least FIVE other people. Do it by email, do it by hand, post it
on newsgroups, put it up on a web page; just spread the word. Unlike other
ways to enrich your life, you don't even have to send five dollars to a
guy at the top of a list. You've received this knowledge...just pass it
on.

THE ANSWER

There is no common English word other than "angry" or "hungry" whose last
letters are "gry". There are many obscure, archaic and uncommon words that
do. It's a trick question based on the wording. Since retellers of the
puzzle who don't know the answer rarely repeat the wording exactly as they
heard it, the question gets retold incorrectly (as in the example above),
the bastardized version propagates, and growing numbers of people get
frustrated with a puzzle that has no solution.

Debate continues about the origin of the puzzle; therefore I will simply
present a number of versions with their solutions. Many rely on the puzzle
presented verbally rather than read.

1) There are two words that end with "gry".
Angry is one and hungry is another.
What is the third word.
Everyone uses it every day and
Everyone knows what it means.
If you have been listening,
I have already told you what the word is.

The answer to this bit of verbal trickery is "what", but invariably a
question mark is appended to the third line, making the puzzle unsolvable.

2) Think of words ending in "gry".
Angry and hungry are two of them.
There are only three words in the English language.
What is the third word?
The word is something that everyone uses every day.
If you have listened carefully,
I have already told you what it is.

A variation on the above puzzle, again based on verbal sleight of hand.
There are three words in the phrase "the English language", and the third
word is "language".

3) There are at least three words
in the English language that end in g or y.
One of them is "hungry", and another one is "angry".
There is a third word, a short one,
which you probably say every day.
If you are listening carefully to everything I say,
you just heard me say it three times.
What is it?

This version, whose answer is "say" is based on the hearer interpreting "g
or y" as "gry".

4) There are three common English words
that end in "g", "r", and "y". Angry and hungry
are two of them. The third is something
that everyone uses every day. What is
the third word?

This one comes the closest to the corrupted version that continues to be
spread, and is the one that relies the least on exact wording. The answer
is "energy". Presenters of the puzzle and their frustrated listeners will
have to decide for themselves if the order of letters is implied in the
wording of the puzzle, and if "there are three words" is equivalent to
"there are at least three words".

Remove obvious spam protection from email address before replying

Michael Alan SOSS

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Timothy Reed (treedREMOVEB...@ball.com) wrote:
: In article <6dm7mc$lti$1...@newsd-134.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
: godz...@webtv.net wrote:

: > Someone at work gave me this riddle the other day and none of us
: > (including the person who gave it to me) can figure it out. It goes
: > like this.
: >
: > There are three words the English lanquage that end in "gry" . One is
: > hungry and one is angry. Everyone knows what the third word means and
: > we use them everyday. And if you've listened closely I've already given
: > you the third word. What is it?
: >
: > If anyone can find the answer or knows already, please E-mail me. Thank
: > you


: THREE WORDS ENDING IN "GRY" ANSWER CHAIN LETTER

Careful! I posted a similar mock chain letter entitled "Make -GRY
fast!!!" about six months ago on this very newsgroup, and someone
forwarded it to the postmaster/sysadmin and the RCMP (Royal Cdn Mounted
Police) as an illegal pyramid scheme. Of course, he apologized later when
I told him to read it, but still . . . I'm sure I have an RCMP file now.

==================================================================
Mike Soss McConnell Engineering 322
so...@cs.mcgill.ca (514) 398-7086

Vodka corrupts, and Absolut vodka corrupts absolutly.
==================================================================

Lawrence Troxler

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godz...@webtv.net wrote:
^^^^^

Hmmmm.

: Someone at work gave me this riddle the other day and none of us
: (including the person who gave it to me) can figure it out. It goes
: like this.

: There are three words the English lanquage that end in "gry" . One is
: hungry and one is angry. Everyone knows what the third word means and
: we use them everyday. And if you've listened closely I've already given
: you the third word. What is it?

: If anyone can find the answer or knows already, please E-mail me. Thank
: you

--
-- Larry Troxler -- l...@westnet.com -- Patterson, NY USA --

Chris Cole

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godz...@webtv.net wrote:

> Someone at work gave me this riddle the other day and none of us
> (including the person who gave it to me) can figure it out. It goes
> like this.
>
> There are three words the English lanquage that end in "gry" . One is
> hungry and one is angry. Everyone knows what the third word means and
> we use them everyday. And if you've listened closely I've already given
> you the third word. What is it?
>
> If anyone can find the answer or knows already, please E-mail me. Thank
> you

Welcome to rec.puzzles. You may be interested in this
entry from the rec.puzzles archive:

==> language/english/spelling/gry.p <==
Find three completely different words ending in "gry."

==> language/english/spelling/gry.s <==
Aside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, there is
no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage. Both
_Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Unabridged_ and the _Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition_ contain
the phrase "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in "gry" that is
not part of a phrase, you must turn to obsolete words or personal or
place names. A list of 130 of these is given at the end of this
article.

So, basically, this puzzle has no good answer. Why, then, is it so
popular? What follows is a conjecture about the history of this very
curious puzzle.

Perhaps someone was browsing through an old dictionary or a book on
unusual and interesting words, and came across the word "meagry,"
meaning meager. Perhaps they noticed that this old word had an unusual
ending, an ending it shared with only two other words: "angry" and
"hungry." Perhaps they were inspired to make up a puzzle, and send it
to a newspaper columnist or a popular radio show. Perhaps the puzzle
was published or broadcast. Perhaps the rest, as they say, is
history.

This puzzle first appears in print in Anita Richterman's "Problem Line"
column in Newsday on May 9, 1975. Several correspondents reported in
this article that they had heard the puzzle on the Bob Grant Talk Show
on WMCA-AM in New York City. The original form of the puzzle was:

There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives,
which end in "gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word
describes the state of the world today. What is it?

This appears to be the origin of this puzzle. Additional evidence for
this hypothesis is found in the correspondence files of
Merriam-Webster. These files contain letters to the editors of
Merriam-Webster (formerly G. & C. Merriam Co.), publishers of Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Webster's International Dictionary. These
files go back over 100 years. Letters asking for the third word ending
in "gry" do not appear until 1975, but there is a steady stream
thereafter.

However, the word "meagry" is not in any current dictionary. Nor are
any of the words on the list below. So, people could not find an
answer. Nature abhors a vacuum, so people resorted to trick
solutions. Thus the modern versions of this puzzle were born.
Everyone is confident that the versions they originally heard were the
true and correct versions. The plain facts are that there is no good
answer, and that there is no one version that is correct. Some of the
trick versions are enumerated below.

1.

This version only works when spoken:

There are three words in English that end in "gree." The first two
are "angry" and "hungry," and if you've listened closely, you'll
agree that I've already told you the third one.

The answer is "agree." The object is to make the listener think about
the letters g-r-y instead of the sound "gree."

2.

There are three words in the English language that end in the letters
g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third
word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?

The answer is "energy." The riddle says that the word ends in the
_letters_ g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters.
Energy is something everyone uses everyday, and everyone probably knows
what it means.

3.

The "Ask Marilyn" (Marilyn Vos Savant) column in Parade magazine on
March 9, 1997 featured this spoken version:

There are at least three words in the English language that end in g

or y. One of them is "hungry," and another one is "angry." There is


a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you
are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it
three times. What is it?

The answer is "say." This version depends upon the listener confusing
the spoken word "or" and the spoken letter r.

4.

There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." Two
words that end in "gry" are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what
the third word means, and everyone uses them every day. If you
listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third
word is. The three words that solve this riddle are...?

The answer is the three-word sentence "I am hungry." This version asks for

three words that end in "gry," not three words each of which end in "gry."

The remaining versions are a form of meta-puzzle, in the sense that
they make no use of the actual letters "gry" themselves, which
therefore are a red herring. The red herring only works because there
is another puzzle that does use these letters (even though that puzzle
has no good answer).

5.

On March 28, 1996, one such version was broadcast on WHTZ in New York
City during "The Elvis Duran Afternoon Show." The person asking the
question was a caller who worked in a beauty salon at a mall somewhere
in NJ:

Think of words ending in "gry." Angry and hungry are two of them.


There are only three words in "the English language." What is the

third word? The word is something that everyone uses everyday. If


you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

The answer to this version is "language" -- the third word in the
phrase "the English language." There are quotation marks needed to
make this answer correct when the puzzle is printed, but they give away
the trick.

6.

Angry and hungry are two words in the English language that end in
"gry." "What" is the third word. The word is something that everyone
uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already told
you what it is.

The answer is "what." But again, the quotation marks spoil the puzzle
when it is printed.

7.

This version is usually stated with certain words capitalized, for no
apparent reason but historical accident:

There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." ONE
is angry and the other is hungry. Every ONE knows what the third ONE
means and what it stands for. Every ONE uses them every day. And if
you listened carefully I've given you the third word. What is it?

The answer is "three," the third word in the paragraph. The rest of
the paragraph is a red herring.

Finally:

A -GRY STORY IN LIMERICK
by
Karen Lingel (Physicist and Penguinist)

Some nusgry just cannot be coaxed
That the whole -gry thing is a hoax
So they make up a word
And spread it -- absurd!
To the other brand new nugry folks.

For instance, there's "language" -- no way!
And "what" -- this favorite will stay!
They pat their own backs.
They're too clever by half!
They've solved the Prime Mystery today!

Some others will say, yeah there's "puggry"
I use it all day! Also "aggry".
And some unschooled
Will surely be fooled.
They'll smile -- they've found it: the third -gry!

The new fad, "g or y", still sucks
It was published by Marilyn (for yuks?)
The nusgry love this!
My diagnosis:
These nusgry are real dumb, uh, ducks.

For Never in this Planet's Hist'ry
Has anyone fibbed -- not a whit, see.
A 'net stranger can't LIE!
(They all seem to cry)
There must be a solution for this -gry!

Some people believe in such junk --
Stuff that I (PhD!) can debunk.
But will anyone listen?
No! Their brains are Out Fishin'!
I should just give up and get drunk.

THE
END


Here is the list of obsolete words, phrases and names:
[Explanation of references is given at the end of the list.]

affect-hungry [OED (see "sado-masochism")]
aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
Agry [OED (see "snappily")]
Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB11]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
air-hungry [OED (see "Tel Avivian")]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
Badagry [Johnston; EB11; OED (see "Dahoman")]
Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; RD:164, pl.49]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
boroughmongry [OED (see "boroughmonger")]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
Bugry [TIG]
Chockpugry [Worcester]
Cogry [BBC]
cony-gry [OED:2:956]
conyngry [OED:2:956]
cottagry [OED (see "cottagery")]
Croftangry [DFC, as "Chrystal Croftangry"; OED (see "way")]
diamond-hungry [OED (see "Lorelei")]
dog-hungry [W2]
dogge-hungry [OED (see "canine")]
Dshagry [Stieler]
Dzagry [Andree]
eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
Egry [France; TIG]
euer-angry [OED (see "ever")]
ever-angry [W2]
fenegry [OED (see "fenugreek")]
fire-angry [W2]
Gagry [EB11]
girl-hungry [OED (see "girl")]
gonagry [OED (see "gonagra")]
gry (from Latin _gry_) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
gry (from Romany _grai_) [W2]
haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
half-angry [W2]
hangry [OED:1:329]
heart-angry [W2]
heart-hungry [W2]
higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
hound-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
houngry [OED (see "minx")]
huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
hund-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
Hungry Bungry [Daily Illini, in ad for The Giraffe, Spring 1976]
hwngry [OED (see "quart")]
iggry [OED]
Jagry [EB11]
job-hungry [OED (see "gadget")]
kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
land-hungry [OED; W2]
Langry [TIG; Times]
leather-hungry [OED]
ledderhungry [OED (see "leather")]
life-hungry [OED (see "music")]
Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489]
losengry [OED (see "losengery")]
MacLoingry [Phillips (as "Flaithbhertach MacLoingry")]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
man-hungry [OED]
managry [OED (see "managery")]
mannagry [OED (see "managery")]
Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
meat-hungry [W2; OED (see "meat")]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
music-hungry [OED (see "music")]
nangry [OED]
overangry [RH1; RH2]
Pelegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pelegry")]
Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
Podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
power-hungry [OED (see "power")]
profit-hungry [OED (see "profit")]
puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
red-angry [OED (see "sanguineous")]
rungry [EDD:5:188]
scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
Schtschigry [LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
Seagry [TIG; EB11]
Segry [Johnston; Andree]
self-angry [W2]
selfe-angry [OED (see "self-")]
sensation-hungry [OED (see "sensation")]
sex-angry [OED (see "sex")]
sex-hungry [OED (see "cave")]
Shchigry [CLG:1747; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times:185,pl.45]
shiggry [EDD]
Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
Shtshigry [Lipp]
sight-hungry [OED (see "sight")]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
Sygry [Andree]
Tangry [France]
Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
Tchigry [Johnson:594]
tear-angry [W2]
th'angry [OED (see "shot-free")]
tike-hungry [CSD]
Tingry [France; EB11 (under "Princesse de Tingry"); OED (see "parquet")]
toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
unangry [OED; W2]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Vigry [CLG:2090]
vngry [OED (see "wretch")]
war-hungry [OED (see "war")]
Wigry [CLG:2090; NAP:xxxix; Times:220, pl.62; WA:948]
wind-hungry [W2]
yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]

This list was gathered from the following articles:

George H. Scheetz, In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, Word Ways 22:3 (Nov.
1989)
Murray R. Pearce, Who's Flaithbhertach MacLoingry?, Word Ways 23:1 (Feb.
1990)
Harry B. Partridge, Gypsy Hobby Gry, Word Ways 23:1 (Feb. 1990)
A. Ross Eckler, -Gry Words in the OED, Word Ways 25:4 (Nov. 1992)
Darryl Francis, Some New -Gry Words, Word Ways 30:3 (Aug. 1997)

References:
(Many references are of the form [Source:volume:page] or [Source:page].)

Andree, Richard. Andrees Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
Bartholomew, John. Gazetteer of the British Isles: Statistical and
Topographical. 1887.
BBC = BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of English Names.
Bio-Base. (Microfiche) Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980.
CE = Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907.
CED = Chambers English Dictionary. 1988.
Century = "India, Northern Part." The Century Atlas of the World. 1897,
1898.
CLG = The Colombia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. L.E.Seltzer, ed.
1952.
CSD = Chambers Scots Dictionary. 1971 reprint of 1911 edition.
Daily Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
DFC = Dictionary of Fictional Characters. 1963.
EB11 = Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.
EDD = The English Dialect Dictionary. Joseph Wright, ed. 1898.
France = Map Index of France. G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces. 1918.
FW = Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1943.

HPS = The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of
Independent Education, 66th ed. 1985.
Indians = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. F. W. Hodge. 1912.
Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language.
1879-87.
Johnston, Keith. Index Geographicus... 1864.
LG/1 = Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing
Gazetteer
or Geographical Dictionary of the World. 1888.
LG/2 = Lippincott's New Gazetteer: ... 1906.
Lipp = Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World. 1861, undated
edition from late 1800's; 1902.
NAP = Narodowy Atlas Polski. 1973-1978 [Polish language]
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number if

applicable:page]
OSN: U.S.S.R. Volume 6, S-T. Official Standard Names Approved by the United

States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer #42, 2nd ed. June 1970.

Partridge, Harry B. "Ad Memoriam Demetrii." Word Ways, 19 (Aug. 1986): 131.

Phillips, Lawrence. Dictionary of Biographical Reference. 1889.
RD = The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the British Isles, 1st ed. 1965.

RH1 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1966.
RH2 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition
Unabridged. 1987.
Simmonds, P.L. Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products. 1883.
Smith, John. The True Travels, Adventvres and Observations: London 1630.
Stieler, Adolph. Stieler's Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
TIG = The Times Index-Gazetteer of the World. 1965.
Times = The Times Atlas of the World, 7th ed. 1985.
W2 = Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Second Edition, Unabridged. 1934.
W3 = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language,
Unabridged. 1961.
WA = The World Atlas: Index-Gazetteer. Council of Ministires of the USSR,
1968.
Worcester, J.E. Universal Gazetteer, Second Edition. 1823.

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Zooey14669

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Mar 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/12/98
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THE WORD IS GRY.

Chris Petersen

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Apr 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/24/98
to Lawrence Troxler

Jesus, I can't believe I'm responding to a "gry" post; but I felt I
had to come to WebTV's defense... :^)

Lawrence Troxler wrote:
>
> godz...@webtv.net wrote:
> ^^^^^
>
> Hmmmm.
>
> : Someone at work gave me this riddle the other day and none of us


> : (including the person who gave it to me) can figure it out. It goes
> : like this.

Given this guy said "someone at work gave me this riddle"; and his
domain would seem to imply he works at WebTV, he does not. Rather,
'webtv.net' is the domain associated with their subscribers, NOT their
business (corp.webtv.net).

While they can make a really cool box which enables joe.average.poster
to get on the air; they cannot be responsible for said postings...

-c

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Charles Bryant

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Apr 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/26/98
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In article <354096...@raleigh.ibm.com>,

Chris Petersen <pete...@raleigh.ibm.com> wrote:
>Given this guy said "someone at work gave me this riddle"; and his
>domain would seem to imply he works at WebTV, he does not. Rather,
>'webtv.net' is the domain associated with their subscribers, NOT their
>business (corp.webtv.net).
>
>While they can make a really cool box which enables joe.average.poster
>to get on the air; they cannot be responsible for said postings...

No. But they are responsible for allocating .net addresses to their
users. A sensible ISP uses a .net address for internal addresses and
something else (such as .co.uk or .com) for customers.


Matthew T. Russotto

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Apr 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/27/98
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In article <1998-04-2...@chch.demon.co.uk>,

Why? IBM, for example, uses .ibm.com for internal addresses and
.ibm.net for customers. Most non-ISP companies use .com for internal
addresses.
--
Matthew T. Russotto russ...@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."

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