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From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: twits on the net (was: Re: Cancellation and Suspicion
Message-ID: <15416@well.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 12:04:53 GMT
References: <9536@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Followup-To: It's a joke!!!!!  Get it??  Get it??  Huh??  Geez................
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) wrote:
}Not that Poskanzer's "myass" would even have
}fooled a twit; lacking a period, it doesn't even look right to a
}casual glance.

It apparently fooled you.  I guess you're not a twit!

}In article <15396@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> 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.

If I were to fall for this stupid trick more than once in a lifetime, I
would retire my .signature in shame.  Once every few months??  Tim, where
are you keeping your brain, in a pickle jar??

}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.

Again with the bragging about your stupidity.  Twice!  Listen, sub-twit,
what I meant by getting mail from daemon is all the automated test
reflectors out there.  That's the whole fucking point of getting someone
to post to misc.test!  Apparently you DIDN'T NOTICE YOUR MAILBOX GETTING
FLOODED EVERY TWO OR THREE MONTHS.  I guess it was just one more mysterious
thing about Unix that you gave up hope of ever understanding.

}What a bozo.

Precisely.  Tim, you are a bozo of extraordinary magnitude.
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Jef
                                   
  Jef Poskanzer  jef@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef
                           "A TOY ROBOT!!!!"