Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccs6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix21 From: ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (David Whiteman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Are you an USENET addict? Message-ID: <1465@sdccs6.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-May-84 22:47:56 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccs6.1465 Posted: Wed May 9 22:47:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 09:39:18 EDT References: <1425@sdccs6.UUCP> Organization: UCSD Medical School Lines: 73 On April 27 I posted an article asking for questions to determine if a person is an USENET addict. Here are all the replies that I received: From: Henry C. Mensch Do you only use your telephone to dialup to a USENET machine to read news and mail? From sdcsvax!ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte Wed May 2 15:43:15 1984 Do you suddenly wake up while writing a note and discover it is 6:30 am? From: sdcsvax!ihnp4!clyde!watmath!utzoo!dciem!martin Usenet addicts suffer from reader's cramp, in which the right hand is stuck in the position for typing only 'n' and 'return'. From: sdcsvax!dcdwest!decvax!iddic!bruceb How about this: "Is the first thing you do when you come to work in the morning log in to the computer to read the news, even before you read the messages left on your desk?" Bruce A. Bernhardt tektronix!iddic!bruceb From: sdcsvax!ihnp4!sun!qubix!lab (Q-Bick) Do you reply to a groaner with "net.tryagain"? Must not be a Usenet addict, Larry Bickford, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!{sun,amd70,decwrl}!qubix!lab From: sdcsvax!seismo!umcp-cs!paul Original-From: Paul R. McMullin when you use "your" for "you're" you reead someone else's use of "your" instead of "you're" and it doesn't bother you anymore... Thank you to all those who sent me a reply. Here are the original questions from my article: How to tell if you are a USENET addict For example can you read rotated jokes with out the aid of a translation program? Is the "n" key on your terminal broken? Whenever you scribble a message on a piece of paper, do you leave the first line blank? By the way when was the last time you have used a piece of paper for writing? Do you scream obscenities rotated? Does your business card list your UUCP or ARPA address? sdcsvax!sdccs6!whiteman