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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:02:11 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      And More
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> Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:57:53 -0400
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> To: Jeff Kell <JEFF%UTCVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>, MAYNOR@RA.MSSTATE.EDU
>
>The enclosed mail file, found in the WORDS-L reader and shown under the spoolid
>4683  in the  console log,  has been  identified as  a possible  delivery error
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> ------------------------- Message in error (37 lines)
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> From: DANGEL@REX.MNSMC.EDU
> Organization: Saint Mary's College of Minnesota
> Date: 2 Oct 92 11:54:22 GMT+1200
> Subject: Re: Golden Words For Today
>
> > Date:          Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:04:00 EDT
> > From:          FRANZ&GEORGE <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
> > Subject:       Golden Words For Today
>
> > Golden Words For Today:
> > .
> > _The truth is, I was so stunned by the radiant aura that surrounded
> > not only the hostess, love judith, and her guest, Rita with the
> > blond hair, but also the entire primate household itself, I was
> > speechless and would have believed *anything*._
> > .
> > -------ggs, in the post, "Since You've Been Wondering Where I Am",
> > July 7, 1992, in a kinder and gentler time.....
> > (This quote brought to you by FRANZ & GEORGE, Accountants At Large)
>
> ---------- What do you mean with radiant aura, is it something you
> really asw, ar just a methafore.
>                                    Diego Angel <Dangel@rex.mnsmc>
>
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:33:08 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: mconnect
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> "mconnect" is the same as telnet 25, except that the latter may be in
> "raw" mode. There are some options. I'll say no more.

Thanks for the info.  I've always used 25.  It works fine.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S.  What's "raw mode"?
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L
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>
> Jill
>    (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
>
> (All right, all right...it's naive to believe that most people
> are basically good, but I can't help it. I'd rather get disappointed
> over and over again than stop believing that.  So sue me.)

I with you, Jill.  I'm naive too, I really believe that most people
are basically good.... except of course for a few people on this
list, such as......   no, I won't say that.  I'll just let -abh say
it for me.
--ggs (back from Hoboken and bouncing the babe....)
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From: maya@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Women *know* these things ...
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 02:34:28 GMT
Organization: University of Nothing Much, Albuquerque

>>Women *know* these things.
>>
>>abh
>
> would a woman say to another woman, "women *know* these things?"  I
>think not
>
>-Mka

	Not surprising, since if women actually know these things,
presumably they know that they know them, and therefore they don't
need to tell one another that fact.  And if you wonder how  a woman might
know that she knows something by virtue of being a woman (as opposed
to the knowledge she has to which her femininity is only
<incidental>), I would have to assure you that women *know* these things.

-maya 
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:21:05 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Perotian quote
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1992, In Medias Res wrote:

>    2)  He's not coming out of the <closet> until certain people
>        stop makeing nasty, uncomplementary, truely unpleasant
>        remarks about him.  So, stop it all ready.

Before he comes out, have him say hi to all my <friends>. And do let him
know that at least <somebody> misses him.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:24:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Bush Bashing

> Wish they'd (replace men with women) though, it would solve
> more than just the economic problems in DC.

The ladies are unlikely to do any worse than the current crowd.

Steve Karlson
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Privatizing Marty

>   3) Are we making a list of people not ammused by giggles?

No need. It already exists. The list is called words-l.  You may have heard of
it.

Chris

This is too easy.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:14:08 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: test
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 Santa@NORTH.POLE.TOYS wrote:

> abh: you're the best!  Keep it up.  Even your one-liners are worth reading.
>
> So long until Christmas!!!
>
> Santa

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I want a motorcycle, and some CD's, and peace on earth and
all that jazz, and a T-1 connect to the back of my Mac, and a faster Mac,
and enough sense to learn Unix even though nobody is going to help me, and
lots of money, and a male with a great big brain, and maybe a faster car,
and good health and tranquility and all that shit, and enough job security
to be able to survive any major fubars I pull bringing usenet to this
virgin land, and even more inventive and satisfying ways to consume
bandwidth, and good looks and popularity, and lots of cool famous friends
who will get me into the really exclusive clubs in NYC whenever I go
there, and more hipness than Rita.

I have been a good girl and really deserve all this stuff.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:56:07 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: abh's oops
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My goodness.  While I was at a mere football game, abh was writing me sweet
nothings.  I wouldn't have gone to the game had I known to expect such net
activities.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: tracy@UTEXAS.EDU (Tracy LaQuey Parker)
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Subject: Re: Take me out to the Phonolog...
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:20:07 GMT
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              Oct 5, 92 3:11 pm

> just what i was gonna ask....my mind is blank.....WHO did the
> Joshua Judges Ruth album???`

Lyle Lovett. Got him on my mind 'cause I'm going to see him tomorrow night at
an Austin City Limits taping.

--Tracy LaQuey Parker
  tracy@utexas.edu
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:54:14 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Some notes on forging mail

>Betcha he did that to see how many of the headers the listserv would cut.

Natalie, looking at tech solutions as usual.

The way I can create illusions is AMAZING -- jeez I just surprise myself
DAILY. If I mention albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu, will you be surprised, Natalie?
It wasn't anonymous. Because anonymity is not strictly defined, you see.

If you see a message from dent.uchicago.edu with no name, you can be sure
it is me. If you see a message from ra or ts1 it hardly stays anonymous.
Especially if it has an ascii dog in it somewhere.

Anyway, to speak more generally, a lot of "clues" can look like pointing
to certainities. I know all about "mconnect", of course, but the truth is
that I looked up the man page on it yesterday. I still don't know exactly
how to fake mail (let alone from a BITNET-ONLY SITE, for some reason
considered important) but I sure can create the impression that I do, with
assistance from abh.

The only truly anonymous message which I have seen on the list was from
goonsquad.spies ... probably a bbs. To my horror the mystery poster called
himself/herself "india". But there were no accusations, from Graham even. I
wondered about that starting from there. Our list had beeen used as a test.
I have no idea, but some leads, like the person who replied to it ... it
nags me sometimes.

These blatant "fakes" don't nag me one bit. But I have a vested interest in
here. I mean, some people will practically assume Santa is me and leave it
at that. The thing is, faking mail is not my style and I have never faked
any mail. I hope that exposing the faker for once will be good for my own
image. Who wants to be known as a slimy forger?

Natalie waits for confirmation from him. Wow. Well, I am content to let the
lad protest a bit more. This is fun, after all.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:39:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Shivvering in DeKalb???

: If tax rates are lowered to 0% there won't be any tax cheating.
: The truthfulness of this statement is self-evident.

Congratulations, karsten, you've just nailed down one end of the
Laffer Curve.

(You wanted a general proof?)

Are you a glutton for punishment?

Steve Karlson

Lift the tax on sailboats!
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:05:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: stupidity

Greetings, Bayla,

At the expense of being accused of taking cheap typographical shots, I
have to ask: Is analytical thining some kind of well-thought-out diet?

Marty
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:38:27 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: I was going to wait until Christmas, but . . .
              2 Oct 1992 07:32:46 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Was MSU's 30-6 victory -- with the loss of Sleepy Robinson -- a Pyrrhic
one?

brad
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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Date: 6 Oct 92 14:33:05 GMT
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              6 Oct 1992 08:27:27 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:27:27 MST Dan Lester said:
>
>Another method, which I forgot last night, is to send some inoccuous
>command to the listserv in question....and send it interactively
>via bitnet....for example, ask to sub again....anyway, if the command is
>NOT processed, I get back a msg saying "link xyz is down" or "listserv
>not logged on" or whatever.  It doesn't tell what the queue is, or if
>listserv is being held....but it does answer many questions.
>
>dan

That's what I do.  If I haven't received anything from words-l for an
hour or so, I'll type 'bitlook listserv at uga'; if I haven't received
anything from any list for an hour, I'll type 'bitlook jenna'.  I'll get
a message similar to Dan's.

Evelyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: RE: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L
Date: 26 Sep 1992 05:38:39 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (The Ronin) says:

>Flameth "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Nahhhhh - I have not yet begun to roast relative newbies....  If you think
this is bad, you don't want to be around when the shots fired in anger
start flying.
I answered this once via the mailer, but as it's being its usual self, no
copy has made its way to the list yet.

>     Just cause they don't let you up on the pulpit (Given your
>reputation on this list, I don't wonder.), you can still preach.
I just thought of a local joke, but it wouldn't translate into something
funny to the electronic unrepentant....and you don't know the personality
involved anyway.....

>> He may be a Southerner, but he ain't no gennulman.<radar antennae swivel>
>> Mme. Bandwidth, care to take a sighting?
<We have a lock, ma'am.  >
>     It would take an act of Congress to make me a gentleman, and
>since I never enlisted, they never got the chance.  And I was never
>taught to believe that I came from a Southern state.  My grandfather
>was quite firm on that.  I hail from a REBEL state.  Born, bred, and
>brought up to rebel.  As for taking a sighting, I was taught never to
>strike a lady.  I have, however, struck a number of beings with two
>'X' chromosomes.
Not when they had Bandwidth ICVMs to back them up, you didn't.:-)

>     The South did not include Brooklyn nor the Bronx.  Still want to
>talk speech impediments?
Ever hear of New Orleans?  The Irish Channel?  Besides, Brooklyn and the
Bronx are not part of the North really; no one up hear will own up to 
having colonized them! [the original of this is better]
>
>     No, but I used to have the Stars and Bars hanging on a wall.  May
>again some day.  There is a lot that stands for besides slavery.
Yeah - Wait til next Civil War.  Maybe a Cubs pennant would be better?

>> <feeling very provocative and donning asbestos longjohns>
>
>     I will leave to others to determine whether or not you look
>provocative in asbestos.  I have no doubt that that foulest of
>demon-spawn, the yankee (not capitalized because that noun is never
>proper), has asbestos longjohns in its wardrobe.

That's for me to know, and you not to bother your little head about.
It would certainly be a very improper Yankee who would let you examine her
underwear, asbestos or not.  

Ruth
waiting for the original of this to show up

>
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:45:36 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Model Railroad
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Gosh, Natalie, you mean I've been spending all my time converting
> measurements on drawings, sawing little bits of wood to the right
> length, drilling and tapping, inserting small pins with tweezers,
> airbrushing and decaling, when all I had to do was send Neiman some
> money and open up the box :-) :-)

Yep.  All you have to do is send $100,000.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:11:25 -0600
From:         harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: Santa
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Oh, f***, that was my first e-oops. Was supposed to go to Chris. I suppose
my underwear is hanging all around my ankles by now. Maybe I ought to unsub
from the list in protest or something.

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 00:48:51 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fakery

Lisa about BENIGHTEDMAN

>I had aconversation with one
>of his co-wokers and asked about him. Most of what he said on the list was
>bullshit but, there was a real person behind the joke postings.

I didn't know BENIGHTEDMAN woked in a Chinese Restaurant--and I think you
meant you had a converstation with one of his co-wankers.


-K

Mka
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Date: 5 Oct 92 22:44:59 GMT
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> I thought orphemes were a chain of theaters....

We are not talking about reel things here.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:02:02 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Test your newbieness!!

>>Guess who this is. Please use typographical, syntactic, semantic, discursive
>
>   Who really gives a rat's ass?

OK, Dan doesn't have a clue, then.

>I think I know, but so what....after all, there are only so many who know
>how to hack addresses.....

More than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:08:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ggs provides the opening...
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> I was waiting for.  You are <so> accommodating, Gib!
>
>                                   Rita L.
>                                   LEONARD@BCVMCMS

Happy to be of help, and *finally* ritaL, *finally* you tell them.
I've had a really hard time keeping that secret.  If I had not been
distracted by my serious work (the FF poll), I would have had to
blurt it out, I'm sure.
Congratulations and be sure to remember to have fun.
--ggs
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 01:46:08 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      RE: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L
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Doris, the all-male bible classes tell the boys how that evil woman eve
[eve - evil - get it?] was responsible for all the sin in the world...

I'm not kidding.  I've had that lecture.  Made me barf and walk out.

G
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:34:43 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Mobile non-Ronin?

From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

>get a copy of the places rated almanac....about fifteen bucks in bookstore,
>a paperback, 9x12, thick....well worth it....and some libraries may have it.

     Unfortunately, by the time I read this I had to attend class, and
by the time class was over the local library (Denver Public Library)
was closed, so instead I went to the campus 'media center'.  After
looking up the call numbers and searching the appropriate stacks, I
was unable to find the tomes in question, so I got hold of the
Reference Librarian and we looked together.  He apologized, said he
didn't have the slightest clue where they could have gotten to, but
that a copy of this almanac was *exactly* what I was after.  This
wouldn't be so maddening were it not that all *3* copies are
*non-circulating*.  And even then the 'library' can't keep its hands on
its materials.  Grrrrrrr.  Tomorrow I go to a *library* (DPL) and try
again.

The Ronin
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:15:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      God contacted me.

>From:  SMTP%"god@words-l"  1-OCT-1992 10:11:27.08
>To:    185422285@ucis
>CC:
>Subj:
>Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 10:20:22 EDT
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>Apparently-To: 185422285@ucis.vill.edu

>testing
>testing

God needs to test. I am beginning to wonder what is going on.

later

alec
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:48:09 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Me and Dan and a dog named ...Stan?

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:38:00 PST Lobstrosities Unite said:
>What, are Dan and I the only ones on this p.m.?  Where did the rest go?

I'm dashing from work to Abstract Algebra class.
>
>Chris

Evelyn
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Deconstructing the Feud
Date: 4 Oct 92 09:29:06 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


>Well, Bayla, it depends on what you mean by 'direction'...  in
>the southern hemisphere the sun apparently traverses the sky right to left
>instead of the usual left to right we're used to up here.  I've seen it -
>it's *very* subconsciously disorientating to your sense of north/south...
>
>G


--Good grief!  Which way gets called "west"?  Anyhow, I usually figure 
direction by putting my right hand where the sun rises, which gets me
standing on a mental compass with my nose pointing north; fo me, the
sun traverses right to left as is.  

Graham, are you "oriented" bass-ackwards from the rest of the world, or 
am I?  Natalie, is this just another example of dialect differences
between the British Isles and US?

--bayla
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: ggs provides the opening...
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>P.S.  I really do want to know - when will "my husband" seem like a
>      natural thing to say?

Maybe never.  There does seem, at times, to be a touch of 'my possession' in
both 'my husband' and 'my wife.'

That notwithstanding, congratulations to you and Ray!  And also, slightly in
advance, to Jim and Helen.  Haven't seen you (collective) 'round these parts
in quite awhile ... don't be a stranger.

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