From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Not Michal Blumenstyk in disguise)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Warning: Non-Bizarre post!
Summary: p.s. this is all true.
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:23:45 GMT
	<64466@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: bc@Apple.COM's message of 29 Mar 92 21:25:02 GMT

In article <64466@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>   |gborges@GeoWare.COM (George Borges) writes:
>   |] It's about time this group was moderated.
>
>   Despite the protests of many, I would like to suggest that ALL of us,
>   EACH AND EVERY ONE of us, send ALL the articles we might ever think of
>   posting, including the ones that we would normally shrug off and say,
>   "naah, been there, done that" to, to Mr George Borges at
>   gborges@GeoWare.COM.

    How history does repeat itself.  As Chanecellor of the Archives, I
was cleaning out a dusty bin, (I managed to un-tar a stuck tar file that
had lain dormant since late 1989) and I found this old gem:

:: Path: itsgw!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!ll-xn!husc6!vietnam
:: From: vietnam@husc6.harvard.EDU (Louis Vietnam)
:: Newsgroups: misc.test,talk.bizarre
:: Subject: Test of new Injector 1.0 news-posting software
:: Message-ID: <142857@husc6.harvard.EDU>
:: Date: 1 Apr 88 00:00:00 GMT
:: Sender: Injector@husc6.harvard.EDU
:: Distribution: usa
:: Organization: New News Software Writers Consortium (NNSWC)
:: Lines: 10
:: Xref: itsgw misc.test:1622 talk.bizarre:17501
:: 
:: This is a test of Injector v1.0, a new News-posting program being
:: written here at Harvard.  Will people receiving this post please
:: reply to me, so I know the message go tpropagate?
:: 
:: Thanks,
:: Louis
:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:: vietnam@husc6.harvard.edu              "Him that would sup with the Devil had
:: vietnam@husc2.harvard.edu               best use a long spoon."
:: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


|| Path: husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!mailrus!husc6!mit-eddie!mit-amt!bc
|| From: bc@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
|| Newsgroups: misc.test,talk.bizarre
|| Subject: Re: Test of new Injector 1.0 news-posting software
|| Message-ID: <2350@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
|| Date: 22 Apr 88 12:23:49 GMT
|| References: <142857@husc6.harvard.EDU> <8636@oberon.USC.EDU>
|| Reply-To: bc@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (bill coderre)
|| Distribution: usa
|| Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
|| Lines: 18
|| Xref: husc6 misc.test:2073 talk.bizarre:20737
|| 
|| >In article <142857@husc6.harvard.EDU> vietnam@husc6.harvard.EDU (Louis Vietnam)
|| > writes:
|| >>This is a test of Injector v1.0, a new News-posting program being
|| >>written here at Harvard.  Will people receiving this post please
|| >>reply to me, so I know the message go tpropagate?
|| 
|| This guy obviously wants mail telling him that his posting made it out
|| into the world. He asked for it, didn't he?
|| 
|| And naturally, since it is new software, he needs EXTENSIVE data, as
|| many data points as possible, from as many nodes as possible, to make
|| SURE his posting went EVERYWHERE, right?
|| 
|| Of course, it wouldn't be talk.bizarre hospitality unless we sent him
|| some bizarreness with each and every message, telling him just how
|| much we ENJOYED his test posting, and how MUCH we would like to hear
|| more such test postings from him in the future, especially to this
|| group here....
  
    I suppose that after four years it's all right if I reveal that all
the termcaps that Mr. bc sent bounced, because this, yes, THIS, was MY
VERY FIRST post to talk.bizarre, and YES, it was also my FIRST FORGERY.
Yes, folks, I TOO was once a blithering newbie with nothing better to do
than annoy the t.bites.  Ho ho ho.  Also, KPD posted an excruciating
flame directed at the husc6 postmasters for not being able to keep Louis
Vietnam's adderss working.  Ho ho ho.
 
    Spasms of mirth, indeed.  Now, even if that joke had been invented
in April 1988, which I'm not sure it had, I certainly didn't know about
it, and that's why I'd probably be more penitent if so many people who
ought to have known better hadn't followed up into misc.test...THREE,
count `em, THREE brilliant traditions inaugurated in ONE!  On the FIRST
TRY!

    Ooh, I think I'd better go soak my head until the swelling goes down
a little.
--

        A woman does NOT like a CLUMSY, FUMBLING man with an ICE PICK.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu