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=============================================================From: Pamela <PAM>
To: donkey
Subject: WHODUNIT
This is a post I got off NetNews.
Post was entitled: FLYSWATTER.
I believe Murali dunnit, probably
after sproinged individual(s)
whined that we didn't wanna DO right.
I will be calling upon the EATs for
assistance in your plan.
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Got most of 'em. The rest of youse, shaddup. Go on with the
RAW and Tim and all that...I'm feeling a bit veclempt, talk amongst
yourselves.
Mom
making the.world a better place since about thirty seconds ago
--
majcher
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 13:11 GMT
From: H.UNIATZ
To:Donkey
Subject: majcher
Pamela says:
>I believe Murali dunnit, probably
>after sproinged individual(s)
>whined that we didn't wanna DO right.
Seems likely. I wonder if there's a full moon or if Majcher is justdeciding
to assert authority on principle, making up the principle as he goes
along. Arthur, maybe you could pull your voice-of-reason stunt and give
him a good talking-to. You could finish with a rousing call for Freedom of
Speech or some such appropriate democratic ideal so that those are the last
words ringing in his ears as Bill shoots him.
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To: Donkey
From: EJFORD
Date: 29 Oct 93 09:58:00 EDT
Subject:
This is just a test to see if I got my distribution list to work.
So don't expect any funny. I'm too busy trying to...HEY!
Why don't we have one of our inner sanctum (one that was not
unsubbed; Rob? Scotty?) approach one of the "suspects" and tell the
vic...er, suspect, that he (our agent) has been getting all these
cheesed-off posts from a bunch of whiney old gaurd-types (us).
We might be able to coax a confession out of the little maggot!
Then, our spy could snitch it to the rest of us, allowing us to dump
tons of email on the little fucker. And not just stuff from us, I
recommend sending him copies of everyting we can get our hands on. I
personally would be happy to send him thouusands of bites of
shareware and big boring textfiles of all sorts; we'll make him choke!
EJ
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 09:04:51 CDT
From: Pamela <PAM>
To:Donkey
Subject: Mr. Chistian:
Yes, please read the charges against Murali before
keelhauling him on his own ship.
I would appreciate your including something
about tuning out, turning off, etc.
And everything he's ever said can and should
be used against him.
>From the FNORD-L welcome:
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We are interested in the prospect of consciousness expansion and
finding new ways of thinking for OURSELVES, we are not content to
just follow the rest of the herd like sheep.
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 11:35:53 EDT
From: AP <LIBALP>
Subject: MURALI'S SENSE OF HUMOR
To: Donkey
I don't think the guilty party is any of those Massachusetts geeks, Scott.
I think it's Murali. I felt, as did Bill, that this was some Ghost of
Flame Wars Past returned to haunt us. I felt like this was someone who
knew all of us. Also, I pissed him off once and he tried to crash my
mailbox, so this is certainly his style. It's less work than thinking of
something clever, I suppose.
I'm with Dana. I'm for taking this personally. Jesus, it's not so much the
offense, as it is the, well, LAMENESS. I mean, if you realized that you
couldn't say anything, because you were dealing with folks smarter than
yourself, wouldn't you just leave it alone?
ap
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 17:24 GMT
From: H.UNIATZ
To:Donkey
Subject: doughnut
>I'm going out THIS VERY MOMENT and buying you that doughnut!
>It's raining right now, but that's beside the point. And it's cold.
Well, Dana, I didn't like to tell you this back when I was young and
innocent and thought that when you promised me a doughnut it meant you
actually had one, had maybe even baked it yourself, but the thing is,
you see, I don't much like doughnuts. Could I have some cheesecake
instead? Or blueberry icecream? Or gingerbread? Or all of the above?
Just leave your umbrella and overcoat here so that you can carry more of
them. If there are bad patches and you need to swim, keep the food dry.
... oh, god, I've sent him out there into the storm and he might get
pneumonia! or maybe DIE! or he might spend all his money on me and
starve...
DANA! Come back! Here's twopence, buy yourself half a stick of
liquorice.
And Don't Let The Door,
H.
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 14:27:12 EDT
From: LIBWCA
Subject: Re: hermie
To: Donkey
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 29 Oct 93 17:59 GMT
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On Fri, 29 Oct 93 17:59 GMT you said:
>
>>Now, there is the possibility that he was lying about the address,so
>>if anyone was to send him stuff, I don't think it would be in good
>>taste to sign it. OK?
>
>Hey! Leave Hermie alone until you've done a great deal more to convince
>me that he was responsible. And even if he was, leave him alone thentoo.
>Note that he claimed to have been unsubscribed as well: perhaps a ruse,
>say you, perhaps not, say I. He also said that he and EJ had had their
>names changed, as though suggesting that there was Something Out There
>doing things. And, he said that he knew how to unsub people, not that
>he had done so.
>
>Calm, pls.
>
>H.
I suspect that it was Hermie; however, at this point, I'm prepared to
call for unilateral disarmament and let the whole thing slide back into
the computer-geek ppit from which it emerged. Verbal dismemberment, if
you recall, is the name of this game; and I for one would not like to
see the energy of this group expended in techno-pranks and postal
jibes, nor any other display of hollow intellect not involving the sort
of pyrotechnical gymnastics that got us all kicked out of high school in
the first place. If we're going to destroy these people - and we are
going to destroy these people, although I'm not exactly certain which
people I'm talking about - let's do it the honorable way. Hyperbole,
metonymy, scansion, and spewage - these are our weapons. Remember - the
man who picks up an ethernet connection is a man who has run out of
absurdity. Or something.
As to the changing of Hermie's name, and of EJ's (which led to the
transformative moment in which EJ became gabba-gabba in all our eyes,)
and the subscribing of Don to the Vampyres list, and all other manner of
teenage fun - well, that was me, in a moment of weakness. I can't help
but feel a connection with the current Troubles, so I'm going to opt out
of any non-verbal revenge schemes. Unless, of course, it turns out that
Majcher really is responsible, in which cast the issue becomes one of
authoritarian stupidity, as so brilliantly delineated by H. Uniatz in her
recent pulitzer-prize winning epistle, after the reading of which I
seriously considered the purchase of an airline ticket and a bottle of
Tattinger Brut; but I digress.
For what it's worth, I think that this meta-list should remain on-line,
for a variety of reasons, most of them having to do with ennui and it's
redress.
Thank you, and God Bless these United Snakes and All Those Small Countries
Bill
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 20:42:17 EDT
From: LIBWCA
Subject: RE-EVALUATION OF SITUATION
To: Donkey
Fever down a bit, and on further reflection it seems likely the
Majcher hypothesis is the correct one. For those of you new to
this game: Salamander and his friend Caterpillar have never
approved of Us, not since Uniatz and Cheating made their list
amusing against their wishes. They've been trying to run Us
off for years, but Sally's always been to gormless to take an
active role in the enterprise, and since Pat left he's just
been sitting there with his brain on buzz. Somebody musta put
a stick up his butt.
That being the case, we certainly can't leave. Too many dead people
would be offended if we just up and let a fetid clown like that
run us off without firing a shot. Maybe it is time to fold up the
tents and move on, but we owe it to Juniper Sage and Funcum Uniball
to do so without, at the very least, flushing the little shit out
into the open where we can get in a parting salvo.
Another factor: if we retreat into our own little list where Only
the Cool Survive, who's gonna collect the trash? Who's gonna work
the beanfields? Every Nobility must have it Peasantry.
And, too, it's Cleresy. See recent stone tablets from Foss, Daniel,
who was included in this group as a deliberate affront, since no
other form of obeisance is feasible. Suggest we all meditate.
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