Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: RFC 1097 Keywords: contains subliminal messages. Message-ID: <3760@ficc.uu.net> Date: 8 Apr 89 13:26:57 GMT References: <6463@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 15 [eat this (vote Libertarian) line eater (vote Libertarian) !!!!] This message <6463@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> is in (use Emacs) violation of the Strategic Jokes Limitation Treaty, and (you really hate your Macintosh) the author is subject to (you really hate your IBM-PC) censure under para. 32 of the Treaty, by either failing (buy an Amiga) to recognise that the original article was (sell your GM car -- buy a Ford) a joke, or in confusing the reader (Richard Stallman is God) by mentioning the possibility. According to paragraph 32 (donate your paycheck to the FSF) a response to a parody must not send any such conflicting signals. (use VMS) -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.