From: murraya@ecf.toronto.edu (MURRAY ALEXANDER W)
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Followup-To: alt.shenanigans, misc.test
Summary: Though Police Invade the 'Net
Keywords: fnord
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:32:47 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.205817.14461@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY)) writes:
>In article <1992Dec20.035206.21289@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
>>
>>A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
>>post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
>>The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.
>>
>>
>>							-Rascal
>
>There is a big diference between being a stupid bigoted prick, and a
>shenanagan. Try again white boy... 
       ^ hmm...
>
>Oh, and right on the blackboard 1,000 times the folowing:
>
>two, too and to.
>

Aha.  Too funny.  Now, YOU go and write on the blackboard,
"Not 'shenanagan', but 'shenanigan.'
 Not 'shenanagan', but 'shenanigan.'
 ...."

ObShenanigan:  Add careless mailing-list users (ie. those who mail a message 
containing the single line, "UNSUB", to the group, repeatedly) to the
"Clueless Mailing-list Users' Mailing List".  Including a shamelessly
copied-and-pasted excerpt from an excellent mailing list,

 > From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
 > To:   nm-list@reef.cis.ufl.edu
 > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:35:27 -0400
 > I've done it.  clueless@mantis.co.uk, the Clueless Users Network Test
 > System (aka the Clueless Users Mailing List).  To subscribe, forge mail from
 > the guilty party saying
 >
 >    subscribe clueless
 >
 > and send it to clueless-request@mantis.co.uk.  He can then happily reply
 > to the regular mail messages, and have his replies sent to everyone else on
 > the list.  He can also send lots of "UNSUB CLUELESS" messages to
 > clueless@mantis.co.uk and have them forwarded too.  Eventually he'll
 > discover the right way to unsubscribe.
 >
 > The regular mail message reads:
 >
 > > From: clueless@mantis.co.uk
 > > To: clueless@mantis.co.uk
 > > Subject: Welcome, clueless user!
 > >
 > > Welcome to the Clueless Users Network Test System, an intelligence test
 > > for the ignorant and impolite.
 > >
 > > You have been automatically added to this mailing list because you sent a
 > > subscription request like "UNSUB ME" out to the entire readership of a
 > > mailing list, instead of sending it to the list server or list maintainer.
 > >
 > > There is nobody of worth reading this mailing list.  The only way you can
 > > become unsubscribed is to figure out the standard way of unsubscribing
 > > from an Internet mailing list.  Until that time, you will get these
 > > messages regularly.
 > > If you made an innocent mistake in sending your "UNSUB ME" out to the
 > > entirelist, then you will know how to unsubscribe from this list
 > > immediately and no harm will be done.
 > >
 > > If, on the other hand, you simply have no clue how to deal with mailing
 > > lists, you'd better start reading up on the subject before you go
 > > blundering around again.  Your attention is cordially drawn to the
 > > newsgroups news.announce.newusers, news.newusers.questions, and
 > > news.answers.
 > >
 > > Final hint: the mailing list address is clueless@mantis.co.uk.
 > >
 > > Have fun.
 >
 >
 > mathew

Heh heh... ;-)

...Alex
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