Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!fair From: fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.flame,net.news Subject: Re: net.terror Message-ID: <8710@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 21:42:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8710 Posted: Tue Jul 2 21:42:48 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 09:06:54 EDT References: <773@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <775@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.followup:5043 net.flame:10942 net.news:3559 Scene: Kurt the net terrorist has just threated the net with the ultimate weapon: the canonical list of lightbulb jokes. Jeff and the rest of the software gang are held at bay by Kurt's finger on the return key... ... and as Kurt hits the return key, suddenly the news feed is cut off, and their vax crashes with a blaze of light as the jokes unleash their power locally posted... Kurt: (dazed) What happened? Jeff: (smiles knowingly) This couldn't have been a Fluke. A UNIX Wizard must have wielded the farce to stop you. Either that or someone called the upstream USENET admin... Kurt: Curses! Foiled again by the power of USENET! this scenario brought to you by, keeper of the network news at ucbvax and cooperating netnews admins everywhere Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU