Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!agate!eris!nj 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 References: <7086@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7090@gryphon.CTS.COM> <931@psuhcx.psu.edu> <1744@ddsw1.UUCP> <2060@looking.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 25 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."