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AA Arens

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Mar 12, 2004, 2:33:46 AM3/12/04
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Single
Double
Triple
Quadruple

How to go further? ->
5
6
7
8
9
10

Pls. Reply to b...@cbn.net.id

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Rømer

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Mar 12, 2004, 3:28:11 AM3/12/04
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> Remove X from my e-mail address to send me an e-mail
> Enlevez X de mon adresse e-mail pour m'envoyer un e-mail
> Quite la X de mi dirección para enviarme correo electrónico

Why on earth camouflage your e-mail address if you write in in the body
anyway?


Odysseus

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Mar 12, 2004, 4:45:44 AM3/12/04
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AA Arens wrote:
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> Single
> Double
> Triple
> Quadruple
>
> How to go further? ->

All from the Latin words for the numbers:

> 5
quintuple
> 6
sextuple --

beyond six they're not often seen, but I guess:

> 7
septuple
> 8
octuple
> 9
nonuple
> 10
decuple.
>

There's always the English suffix "-fold", as in "sevenfold" &c.

> Pls. Reply to b...@cbn.net.id
>

Sorry, (other reasons aside) the disguised URL prevents my e-mailing
from this program and I can't be bothered to change the preferences
to allow it.

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david56

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Mar 12, 2004, 5:57:38 AM3/12/04
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Odysseus typed thus:

> > 7
> septuple

I would add heptuple as an alternative for 7, but it doesn't seem to
be widely used online.

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Jon

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Mar 12, 2004, 8:28:28 AM3/12/04
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"R?er" <fupk...@hotmail.dk> wrote in message
news:405175a8$0$221$edfa...@dread12.news.tele.dk...

> > Remove X from my e-mail address to send me an e-mail
> > Enlevez X de mon adresse e-mail pour m'envoyer un e-mail
> > Quite la X de mi direcci? para enviarme correo electr?ico

>
> Why on earth camouflage your e-mail address if you write in in the body
> anyway?

Because there are so many e-mail scanning programs (robots, not humans)
haunting on the Net, I suppose. They collect (not "read") e-mails, for the
purpose of spamming. I myself got two very bad spam mails today, just five
minutes after a posting in a newsgroup. :-(

J.


Peter Beattie

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Mar 12, 2004, 9:47:22 AM3/12/04
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Jon wrote:
> I myself got two very bad spam mails today, just five
> minutes after a posting in a newsgroup. :-(

Two, eh? That's bad...

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Odysseus

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Mar 13, 2004, 9:30:04 AM3/13/04
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david56 wrote:
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> Odysseus typed thus:
>
> > > 7
> > septuple
>
> I would add heptuple as an alternative for 7, but it doesn't seem to
> be widely used online.
>
"Hept-" seems to me distinctly Greek: "tetruple" and "pentuple"
certainly don't sound right. Cf. "septangle" but "heptagon".

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