Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com writes:

Ian Douglas wrote:

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Thanks for the advice and offer of help. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, I am a bit of a newbie and have not fully found my way around the ALUG website, nor its terminology, yet. What exactly is the "ALUG lists passim" you refer to?

Hi, Ian: my pleasure. "Passim" is old-fashioned shorthand (Latin, actually) for "in the past" or "previous/ly". It means: look in the archives!

It means "here and there" or "throughout", nothing to do with the past.