Subject: A message to would be posters to T.B.
Date: 15 Jul 92 20:05:24 GMT
I borrowed a certain speech from literature (that means books for all
you newbies out there) which, when slightly modified, has some amount
of applicability to this group. Enjoy:
Rant and rave, I pray you, as I dictate it to you flowingly off
your fingers. Or if you would followup, as I have, I had as CARASSO
the group crier spoke my lines. Nor do not followup without checking
the crosspost line, thus, but use all judiciously. For in the very
torrent, tempest, and as I may say whirlwind of your passion, you
must aquire and beget an intemperance that may give it crassness.
O! it offends me to the soul to see a robustious signature-pated poster
tear a thread to tatters, to very rags. To split the ears of the newbies
who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable cascades
and flames. I would have such a fellow whipped for outdoing gooley.
It out-wavy's Davy, pray you avoid it.
Be not too tame neither, but suit the post to the flame, the flame
to the post, with this special observance. That you hold, as 'twere, the
mirror up to the newbie; to show fools their own idiocy, misc.jobbers their
anal retentiveness, and the very lowest kind of misc.test crossposters their
ignorance of the net.
APOLUJEES TO SHAKESBEER,
John
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Dan Quayle is a Bozoe, doen't you think soe?
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