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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
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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   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