Subject: A message to would be posters to T.B. Date: 15 Jul 92 20:05:24 GMT I borrowed a certain speech from literature (that means books for all you newbies out there) which, when slightly modified, has some amount of applicability to this group. Enjoy: Rant and rave, I pray you, as I dictate it to you flowingly off your fingers. Or if you would followup, as I have, I had as CARASSO the group crier spoke my lines. Nor do not followup without checking the crosspost line, thus, but use all judiciously. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say whirlwind of your passion, you must aquire and beget an intemperance that may give it crassness. O! it offends me to the soul to see a robustious signature-pated poster tear a thread to tatters, to very rags. To split the ears of the newbies who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable cascades and flames. I would have such a fellow whipped for outdoing gooley. It out-wavy's Davy, pray you avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but suit the post to the flame, the flame to the post, with this special observance. That you hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to the newbie; to show fools their own idiocy, misc.jobbers their anal retentiveness, and the very lowest kind of misc.test crossposters their ignorance of the net. APOLUJEES TO SHAKESBEER, John -- =-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-= Dan Quayle is a Bozoe, doen't you think soe? =-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-=-*-= This post is copyright © 1994 John Perry. Any rebroadcast or republication is prohibited without my expressed written consent. Write to me with your comments or usage requests |