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- From: operjfw@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Waldby)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Invisible posts
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:23:20 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
- Lines: 49
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-
- We'd like to alert you to our new product, which will probably be
- the technological breakthrough for YOUSNET (i think thats what those
- big guys always call this newsboard). Here at Bob Bampfre & Sons, we
- think about you. A lot. I think it was last Tuesday, we just sat
- around thinking about you all day. But, about the product - we
- present to you the invisible post - a post which you see when you
- write it, but nobody else can ever see it. Oh it'll be there on the
- machine all right, it'll just be invisible.
-
- This would allow a person to post his message to a group, with the
- added advantage that no one could see it. Just think of the implications
- of this!
-
- - No more flames with sarcasm that hurts so much
-
- - No resistance to your ideas
-
- And of course, there would be less clutter, because everyone would
- take advantage of this, and before you could say Jack Robinson,
- people would post exclusively using invisible posts.
-
- Just look what people have been saying about our sample environment:
-
- "Ever since I started using invisible posts, my life has changed so
- much for the better! I used to be beaten down day after day when I
- read newsgrazer, with so many people making fun at me and jeering.
- I had nearly given up posting completely, until at wit's end, I
- found the invisible post. Now I'm happily posting 10, 11 times a day!"
- - Frugus Uloopus
-
- "A year, my boss was yelling at me five hours out of each eight hour
- day. I know because I timed it once. He got mad because I was always
- posting letters during the morning shift and then reading replies
- during the afternoon shift. He started getting so bad that I had to
- start locking him up in the closet when I came in to work. But that
- all changed when I told my good friend Al about it. He suggested
- invisible posts, which he had used for years. And now, I still post
- in the morning, but my afternoons are free to work! I even started
- letting the boss out of the closet after my coffee break, but that
- may change soon, because he's all blue and smells bad. At least he
- doesn't yell at me anymore. Come to think of it, he doesn't say much
- at all now-a-days."
- - The man living in that house across the road you thought
- was uninhabited
-
- --
- by Bob Bampfre & Sons
- "working towards a good tomorrow a little earlier than most,
- when we can"
-