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From: nj@eris.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A SERIOUS DILEMMA FOR THE NET
Message-ID: <14647@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 23 Sep 88 17:04:23 GMT
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In article <2060@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>Well guys, it worked.  You saved Portal from attack.  But we've seen through
>it the next time you try.
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

No form of humor should EVER be posted, especially in news.admin,
unless followed by explicit humor-indicators*.  If we moderate
news.admin, this sort of reprehensible behavior would never
occur.


nj


* Humor-indicators:  also known as "smiley faces" on trash groups
  like talk.bizarre.  Described by the following grammar:

                 ::= ':-)'

  See [Knuth80] for a discussion of the efficiency of smiley
  faces and a refutation of Hofstadter's disgusting and vile
  argument that they are "too cute, too silly, and just plain
  too stupid."