Apud Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>The use of "gaigin" as a shibboleth on fjlij was inspired by one
>particularly clueless fellow who posted by the name of "Tony". He so
>routinely and consistently misspelled "gaijin" as "gaigin" that we
>sort of despaired of getting him to type it correctly and just decided
>that we would all join him in his error.

>http://tinyurl.com/9udx6

I beg to differ (which is a polite way of saying "You're totally 
wrong, you stupid boofhead!")

That post was in 2002. Gaigin-usage was alive and well in flij before then, 
although more sporadic.

See:

        http://tinyurl.com/cxgka  (1996)
and
        http://tinyurl.com/a4ggc (1997)

The second thread there included a posting from a certain M*** C***.

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