Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: twits on the net (was: Re: Cancellation and Suspicion Message-ID: <9536@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 7 Jan 90 16:13:20 GMT References: <9519@hoptoad.uucp> <15396@well.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 32 >In the referenced message, tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) wrote: >}First of all, it's nice to know that my rule of thumb has been >}validated once again; only utter scumbags try to redirect messages to >}the bit bucket by using unmentioned Followup-To lines. And then, amazingly, one of the net's major scumbags does the same thing, as if to proclaim his status to the world. But again, I long ago learned to check. Not that Poskanzer's "myass" would even have fooled a twit; lacking a period, it doesn't even look right to a casual glance. In article <15396@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer writes: >The main reason I read misc.test is so I can see who gets caught by this >simple but amusing trick. Tim has been caught quite a few times. Either >he doesn't learn very well, or he likes getting mail from daemon. Bullshit. If "quite a few times" is once every two or three months, out of dozens of attempts to get me to fall for it, then the moon is also made of green cheese. And by the way, Dopey, getting mail from daemon when a message can't be sent is not a general characteristic of all systems. It doesn't happen here; I know because I sometimes answer crossposted messages and fail to notice that one of the groups is not present here. What a bozo. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "I see little divinity about them or you. You talk to me of Christianity when you are in the act of hanging your enemies. Was there ever such blasphemous nonsense!" - Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"