Hey Ed,
this one's for you.
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Dear (please mark [x] one):
[ ] sir [ ] clueless one [ ] twit [ ] madam
[ ] great man on campus [ ] dwell [ ] twerp
[ ] comrade [ ] Elvis [ ] moon beam [x] boor
[ ] Babe [ ] Geek [ ] Boob [ ] Communist
[ ] Republican [ ] Democrat [ ] Liberal [ ]Conservative
[ ] Other ( )
You are being gently flamed because.
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GENERAL
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[ ] you SCREAMED! (used all caps)
[x] you repeatedly have shown lack of humor
[ ] you have a SIG with more than 4 lines of ASCII graphics
[ ] you assumed that AOL/CIS/Prodigy founded the Internet
[ ] Repeatedly requested info on where to find XXX stuff.
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FOR LISTERVS (Open discussion Groups)
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[ ] you sent a please remove me from the list message to the
list rather than the list-server
[ ] you continued a boring useless stupid thread
[ ] you repeatedly posted to the same thread that you just
posted to
[ ] you repeatedly initiated incoherent, flaky, and mindless
threads
[ ] you posted a piece riddled with profanities
[ ] you advocated Net censorship
[x] you repeatedly assumed unwarranted moral or intellectual
superiority
[x] you are under the misapprehension that this group is your
preserve
[ ] you are apparently under compulsion to post to every thread
[ ] you are posting an anonymous attack
[ ] you responded to an obvious troll
[ ] you posted an obvious troll
[ ] you neglected to do research on the chosen subject
[ ] you asked a question that was covered in the available FAQ
[ ] you redundantly covered the same point over and over
[ ] you crossposted excessively
[ ] you used long lines, i.e. you didn't break up your lines
after 60-70 characters, thereby making it hard to quote your post.
[ ] Over 90% of your post was quoted from a previous post.
[ ] Over 90% of your post was quoted from a previous post and
your addition was "I agree" or "Me too."
In the future, you may wish to;
[ ] do not delete the "welcome to the list" message you received
when you joined
[ ] allow boring and useless threads to die
[ ] remember that not all news readers are threaded
[ ] recall that there are academic and commercial users on the
net
[ ] remember that the Internet is multinational
[x] consider that others may know more about certain subjects
than you
[x] exercise some humility
[ ] be careful of where you are cross posting to
[ ] 'lurk' without posting for a few days to learn the forum of
a group
[ ] get used to being mocked
I would like to suggest that, for the common good, you;
[ ] wait at least two hours before responding to another post
[ ] read the FAQ (frequently asked questions) list for the group
[ ] learn to use the 'kill' command to eliminate erroneous posts
[ ] selectively respond to threads after reading all new
messages in that thread
[x] voluntarily apologize in a brief post
[x] no longer contribute to this newsgroup/mailing list
[ ] no longer contribute to any newsgroup/mailing list
[ ] no longer contribute to the gene pool
[ ] look into the possibility of medication for the above
problems
[ ] familiarize yourself with the history of the Internet
[x] familiarize yourself with the concept of:
[x] patience [x] tolerance [ ]caution
[x] common courtesy [ ] succinctness
[x] vocabulary [x] higher brain functions
[ ] Other:
[ ] Re-install what ever failed mental operating system you are
currently running on
Please save this message and review it occasionally to determine
your progress toward being;
[ ] a useful member of Internet society
[x] a less annoying member of Internet society
[ ] a human being
[ ] a fully-functional human being
[ ] a tolerable poster
[x] integrated into humanity
[ ] re-integrated into the wild
[ ] Other: ( )
Thank you for taking the time to read this form flame.
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