Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9396 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2003 13:48:47 -0000 Received: from netmail02.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.221) by mailstore with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 13:48:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 9898 invoked by uid 10001); 14 Jul 2003 13:48:46 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by netmail02.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 13:48:46 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-SQ: A Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 19c3gJ-0003Ls-OW for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:47:55 +0100 Received: from [165.212.11.113] (helo=cmsrelay04.mx.net) by post.thorcom.com with smtp (Exim 4.14) id 19c3gF-0003LZ-Eb for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:47:51 +0100 Received: from uadvg128.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.128) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 2003 13:47:19 -0000 Received: from usa.net [81.211.131.89] by uadvg128.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/dibene@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.08F) with ESMTP id 689HgNNvP0399M28; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:47:16 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 81.211.131.89 AUTH dibene@usa.net usa.net Message-ID: <3F12B471.2000208@usa.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:47:29 +0200 From: "Alberto di Bene" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <003001c349d4$d1bfacc0$15062850@hughspc> <001101c349df$798686e0$3704210a@Hugh> Subject: Re: LF: Re: stress with xyl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANGversion=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Hugh M0WYE wrote: >I can't understand how the CW abreviation XYL came about. Please check my > > OM stands for Old Man and YL stands for Young Lady, supposedly the wife of the old man. XYL was introduced to indicate a next-to-become YL, i.e. the fiancee, before marriage. Then it became customary to indicate the wife with XYL, but the correct way should be YL. 73 Alberto I2PHD