brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III) (07/02/85)
Normally I would refuse to give in to terrorist demands. However, in this case I reccomend that we create net.terror. If the original posting is an example of the quality of future postings, net.terror will most certainly be better than net.jokes. I will certainly suscribe to net.terror. If having given in on this initial demand the fellow turns out to be more nuisance than amusement. We can always hunt him down and kill him (perhaps assasinate is a better word). My Colt 45 is loaded, cocked and locked and ready for any such task! :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-), :-) Provided the terrorist is kidding of course!
root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) (07/02/85)
In article <773@vax2.fluke.UUCP> kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) writes: > > There is nothing you can do to stop me. You cannot cancel all my messages. > You cannot protect your newsgroups. I may strike any where, any time I > wish. I might resurrect net.db, send boring messages to net.jokes, or even > start a religious argument in net.lang. I will plunge the net into chaos, > force the severance of ARPA tie-ins, and eventually drive commercial sites > away, until you fall into the abyss of isolation from which you originally > came. If you doubt my sincerity, I will give you a tiny demonstration of > my power > > Q: What's green, Irish, and stays out all night? > A: Patty O'Furniture! > > Ha Ha Ha!!! There's no way to stop me! Better give in to my demands. Oh no! We're helpless against the awsome might of these newer and even more terrible death-space-battle-jokes! What can we do who can we call? -- UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!root - Lord Frith ARPA: trwatf!root@SEISMO "Money for you from the Buddah"
fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) (07/03/85)
Scene: Kurt the net terrorist has just threated the net with the ultimate weapon: the canonical list of lightbulb jokes. Jeff and the rest of the software gang are held at bay by Kurt's finger on the return key... ... and as Kurt hits the return key, suddenly the news feed is cut off, and their vax crashes with a blaze of light as the jokes unleash their power locally posted... Kurt: (dazed) What happened? Jeff: (smiles knowingly) This couldn't have been a Fluke. A UNIX Wizard must have wielded the farce to stop you. Either that or someone called the upstream USENET admin... Kurt: Curses! Foiled again by the power of USENET! this scenario brought to you by, keeper of the network news at ucbvax and cooperating netnews admins everywhere Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU
crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) (07/03/85)
Don't give in, Chuq! Once you have given in to this demand, who knows what might follow? They might demand that net.general be made accessible to any topic -- or worse, that everyone *has* to read net.religion! (...and at the opening of the silly season today, the first screwball was thrown out in net.general.) -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)
jay@garfield.UUCP (Jeyakumar Kumarasingam) (07/04/85)
In article <1025@trwatf.UUCP> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes: >In article <773@vax2.fluke.UUCP> kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) writes: >> >> There is nothing you can do to stop me. You cannot cancel all my messages. >> You cannot protect your newsgroups. I may strike any where, any time I >> wish. >Oh no! We're helpless against the awsome might of these newer and even more >terrible death-space-battle-jokes! What can we do who can we call? ----- call NET.BUSTERS :-)
riks@teklds.UUCP (Rik Smoody) (07/09/85)
> demands of the net. Stop chuqui. If you do not, I will be forced to > destroy the entire network by posting hundreds of lightbulb jokes to > net.sources, and dozens of unrotated obscenities to net.general. > > There is nothing you can do to stop me. You cannot cancel all my messages. > You cannot protect your newsgroups. I may strike any where, any time I > wish. I might resurrect net.db, send boring messages to net.jokes, or even > start a religious argument in net.lang. I will plunge the net into chaos, > force the severance of ARPA tie-ins, and eventually drive commercial sites > away, until you fall into the abyss of isolation from which you originally > came. If you doubt my sincerity, I will give you a tiny demonstration of response a: Aw, go ahead. See if anybody notices! response b: I am listening mein fuhrer. I have replied, as you wished. What can I do next to help in your efforts to paralyze the net and the country and the WORLD!