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- From: daz@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David A. Z.)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when...
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 04:40:11 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <1epnbbINN6s7@life.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Nov19.162645.18474@geovision.gvc.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.162645.18474@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com write
- In article <1992Nov19.162645.18474@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com write
- s:
- >Don't you hate it when some newbie you've never heard of posts some stupid
- >signature, and when you warlord it, they claim it was bait. Yeah, right.
- >It's happened to me here and in alt.folklore.computers - somebody who's
- >never posted before, or at least not enough so that I'd recognize thier name
- >claimed something they posted was bait.
- >
- >Get a clue people: If you haven't been around long enough so that people
- >know you, then nothing you do can be counted as bait. If you claim it was
- >bait, then it just sounds like stupid after-the-event rationalization.
- >
- >Free clue: In this group, you're not ready to bait until you've exchanged
- >so much mail from one or more of the ``inner circle'' that your mailbox is
- >getting dangerously overfull.
-
- He also wrote:
- > In my book, it's not bait until you have enough of a rep that those in the
- >know would no better. Otherwise - it's too much like "yeah, bait, that's
- >the ticket - I'll claim it was bait"
-
- Ha ha ha. He's sooooo embarassed because he's the only person
- in the "inner circle" (begged your way in) that takes bait so often.
-
- And by the way, there are other types of bait, but you'd rather
- rather use the "From:" line as the criteria because
- A) you'd lose at your own bait game otherwise, or
- B) you're too st00pid to figure out the other ways.
-
- -daz@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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