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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:07:14 -0600
To: chris@wibble.co.uk
From: "Me, Myself, and I" <hondo@eyeonvideo.com>
Subject: Classic tech!

Hey there Lowlite!  This is Cryptic, the guy you were talking to in IRC the
other night..:).

I have been reading around, and I came up with a couple of tech classics.
One was posted in ATSR I believe, so you may have read it, but just in case
you haven't, here it is:

"Dear <ISP>

I have to send a message to approximately 12,000 users, can you please
advise me of the best way to do this.

Thanx."

This one actually happened to one of the guys at work:

<tech> Thank you for calling <isp> how can I help you?
<luser> How come there have been no new messages posted in the newsgroups
that I read?
<t> Is it all of the newsgroups that you read?  Or just some of them
<l> All of them (client then proceeds to list off a bunch of
alt.sex.tasteless groups)
<t> (muffling laughter) I will get our systems team to take a look at them
<l> Are you guys allowed to do that at work????
<t> (mute, laughter, ok, calmed down) No no no, we can't read newsgroups
behind the firewall, but I will get them to see why it is that those
newsgroups have not had any new postings in the last little while.


Well, these are them.  I have been asking the guys to recount any fond
memories they have, they are gonna try to get back to me on that..:).  I
can't wait til ya get the site fixed, that term "wibble" is just damn
catchy!..laugh.

Later Bob! 8)

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