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From: lgondor@utcsrgv.UUCP (Les Gondor)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Psychic Wombats (an uninformed opinion)
Message-ID: <3121@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 08:34:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 08:34:06 1984
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Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto
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.  <-- to prevent malicious psychic wombats from disrupting this message

Has anyone else noticed that the strange truncation of Usenet messages
appeared only a very few weeks before the messages regarding the diabolical
wombat menace?  I claim that this is not a coincidental phenomenon!  Those
little buggers got careless and somehow tipped off the guardians of Usenet
to their machinations.

Little do they ken the wrath of an irate net.  Just think of all the
increased traffic in net.misc with which they have had to try and cope.
No longer are they able to detect message bodies simply by looking for
leading blanks.	 We've shown those antipodal monsters that we can't be
pushed around!

Now here's my plan: everyone start your next net submission (me submit to
anything?  Never!) with an exclamation point!  They'll think that the rest
of the message is just some bizarre site name (gloat, gloat)!  Your messages
will then be safe from their psychic psabotage.

From the idle port of:
Les Gondor, U of Toronto CSRG
{cornell,watmath,ihnp4,floyd,allegra,ubc-vision,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!lgondor
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