OFFTOPIC: *-ly y'rs,

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Agent Drek <drek at MonsterByMistake.Com> writes:
> Where did they come from and are they patented :)
> How can one join the signoff-ly club?

The first occurrence, at least in the python-list archives, was quite
a while ago:

  in-any-case-the-best-christmas-present-i-got-today!-ly y'rs - tim
	-- Tim Peters, 29 Dec 91 

I imagine Tim probably used this on other mailing lists before
python-list.

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