Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!yrdbrd From: yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Extortion time... Message-ID: <1558@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 17:38:47 EST Article-I.D.: bmcg.1558 Posted: Wed Jan 16 17:38:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:13:56 EST References:Reply-To: yrdbrd@bmcg.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: net Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego Lines: 33 Summary: In article wall@fortune.UUCP writes: > 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 NO! Please, have mercy. Here's my $1. This is my guarantee of freedom from lightbulb jokes, armless|legless|headless|etc.less jokes and humorous op-codes, right? Thank you, thank you, thank you... -- Larry J. Huntley Burroughs Corporation Advanced Systems Group 10850 Via Frontera San Diego, CA 92128 (619) 485-4544