From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxm!u1100a!sdo
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Too many non-contributors out there
Article-I.D.: u1100a.293
Posted: Tue Feb 22 17:40:33 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 03:34:09 1983

O.K. folks.  The recent questions about "CAR RT SORT" and the definition
of posslq only caused a hundred or so replies to be posted on the net.
Now I know that there are thousands of readers out there, so this must
mean that most of you are not trying very hard, or are not very smart.
Therefore, I'm going to ask a very simple question.  It has puzzled me
for a long time, and rather than do the laborious research, I'll let the
masses answer it.

The question is - Can anyone think of a word with the letter "e" in it?

As is customary, please post replies to the net.  And if you have a
good answer, make sure you don't read ahead before replying.  After all,
just because someone else knows the answer, it doesn't mean that
you shouldn't share the credit.  In all fairness, please don't grep
for the letter "e" in a dictionary file.  Use your imagination.
(As a sneaky trick I have included some "e" words in this very article.
Try to find them first.)

The purpose of all this is to get all the people who post the same
replies to the net to become so occupied that the rest of us can
unsubscribe to this newsgroup, and conduct a proper news network,
and find other topics to complain about.

If anyone thinks that this should be in net.flame, you are right,
but I'm putting it here anyway. So there.

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