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- Newsgroups: aus.jokes.d
- Subject: Re: People refusing to use aus.jokes.d
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.213743.10733@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (ua.ude.ebortal.reficul@hterag)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:37:43 GMT
- Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System)
- References: <peterb.727433143@wambenger>
- Organization: La Trobe University
- Keywords: butthead, idiot, etc
- Lines: 50
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- In article <peterb.727433143@wambenger> peterb@cs.uwa.oz.au (Peter Bousfield) writes:
- >Hey fellow asu.jokes readers,
- >
- >Does it really annoy you when reading aus.jokes and
- >some butthead gives a discussion without an OB joke?
-
- Yep. But I've blown most of my veins in my forehead and I've only got a few
- left... I'm saving them just in case I become a COBOL programmer...
-
- >It sure does me. So let us _ALL_ do something about it.
- >I now mail any butthead the following file,
- >
- [...file deleted...]
- >
- >this is done easily by typing mail "buttheads email address" < joke
-
- I tried it but it didn't work?
-
- $ mail in%"""gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au""" < joke
- %DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters - reenter command with fewer parameters
- \JOKE\
-
- (Maybe I should ask why in comp.os.vms and blow a vein in Ehud :)
-
- >It takes all of 5 seconds, and if we _ALL_ do it they may
- >realize and stop misusing aus.jokes.
- >So please for all our sakes, make a similar file
- >and any butthead who does not have joke in there posting
- >will get inundated with mail!!!!
- >
- >Hopefully this will cure them.
- >
- >
- >Bye
- >peterb
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Peter Bousfield ,-_|\ E-mail: peterb@cs.uwa.edu.au
- > 285 Robinson Ave / \
- > Cloverdale, WA 6105 -->*_.-._/ Honestly, it was not me!!!
- > Australia v
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- I thought WA's were supposed to be friendly laid back kind of people :)
-
- Cheers,
-
- Gareth.
-
- --
- gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au
-