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1995-08-31 14:35Re: Question
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1995-08-31 14:35gclow@smtpgate.octrf.on.ca.octrf.on.ca>When people are talking about an off topic subject then put some idm >related material at
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quoted 4 lines When people are talking about an off topic subject then put some idm>When people are talking about an off topic subject then put some idm >related material at the end they often put "Obidm....". Can someone please >tell me what this means. I know it means this is the idm related stuff, >but I mean in literal terms. I see it on the ambient list as well.
It means "Obligatory IDM" - i.e. this entire post has been off topic, but since this is the idm list, I *have* to include some idm discussion, so here it is. :-) I'm not sure where it started - the first place I saw it was on the nm-list a few years ago with "ObNM". Greg