mark lewis wrote in a message to David Drummond:

 DD>>> Trade mark. What is trade?

 ml>> don't split the word into two... it isn't two words... it is
 ml>> one word... we trade things all the time in fidonet...
 ml>> trading is the exchanging of one thing for another...

 DD> What do we trade?

 ml> messages, information, barbs, humor, experiances, friendship? 

Not necessarily in that order...    :-)

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