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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
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 17:38:47 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:13:56 EST
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Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego
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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