Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!wall From: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Extortion time... Message-ID: <4883@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 12:01:45 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.4883 Posted: Tue Jan 15 12:01:45 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 05:12:05 EST Distribution: net Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 26 It should be obvious that I can make your lives miserable. I am talking to those who are on the net for more than a quarter or semester class, the working(?) sector of the net. I can really make your day. At any time I can bring back the lightbulb jokes or the man with no arms and no legs jokes. Just one of either joke will create a flood of the same jokes you heard the month before, and the month before that, and etc. But I could due more, I could bring Dune back to net.jokes, NRA and gun control to net.politics, or abortion to just about any group. And these are topics that will rage on and on, and lets not forget the large number of people that will have to print messages for everyone to move the topic elsewhere, and those messages calling for the abolishment of that particular newsgroup. Yes indeed, with just a small indiscreet posting I can bring any newsgroup to its knees, stop all flow of reasonable information. You oldtimers on the net know this to be true. So consider this your one and only warning: send $1 each electronically, or it's all over! The Fortune Bandito