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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Lady Arwen Screams the Chain Letter Blues
Message-ID: <121@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 16:50:42 EST
Article-I.D.: tpvax.121
Posted: Sat Dec 10 16:50:42 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Dec-83 01:47:54 EST
References: <532@ihuxp.UUCP> <1381@sdccsu3.UUCP>
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, Wash
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You complain about getting the chain letter about 8 times daily.

I might just point out that all message headers include the number of
lines that the message consists of. When you read some absurd number like:

(3 trillion lines - more?) all you have ot do is hit that old 'n' key,
then RETURN, and you're on your way to the next article; no fuss, no muss.

I you do accidentally get into one of these things, the MORE pager lets
you use the 'q' command any time the MORE xx% message appears on the
bottom of your screen. 

Seriously, I sympathize with you, particularly after the really nice note
you sent when you still had only received it 35 times or so. I haven't been
one of the perpetrators, but I think I can see how some childish
mentalities might take your "SCREAM" message as an open request for more
of the same. For a while there, it was in vogue here at Fluke for people
to mail a 'terminal characteristic bomb' to one another. It never got
nasty, most people doing it as a laugh on their friends; nonetheless,
there are always those who don't realize when the joke is over and its
time to get back to work. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear that the
same fluffhead sent all 8 copies...

Gary Benson
John Fluke Mfg. Co.
Everett, WA, USA


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