alt.anybody code
alt.anybody Control
The alt.anybody Code - Version 1.01
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Here it is at last, the first official release of the Alt.Anybody code. Work
it out for yourself and bung it on the end of your signature file.
List as many codes as is relevant, one from each section, only stating any
more by use of the brackets below.
This code was created by :-
Bill Godfrey <godf...@coventry.ac.uk>
Neil Massey <nma...@coventry.ac.uk>
Andrew Williams <aj...@coventry.ac.uk> <andrew.j...@bcs.org.uk>
Stephen Sangar <cor...@coventry.ac.uk>
Dave Hodder <dho...@coventry.ac.uk>
Prefix the code with "Alt.Anybody(v1.01):"
(...) This situation is only temporary.
[...] I used to be in this situation.
{...} I intend to be in this situation.
<...> This status is most definately false. (Honest)
}...{ People think I am in this situation
>...< I hope never to be like this, but am told that I am
)...( This is a constantly recuring situation
]...[ These brackets don't mean anything, but can be used if multiple
things are true - so they act as a field separater
Eg. [A++] A- I used to read Alt.Anybody, but now I can't.
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A - alt.anybody - Do you know what it is ?
A4+ I was born reading alt.anybody.
A3+ I have always read alt.anybody since the begining.
A++ I read Alt.Anybody and I love it.
A+ I only read alt.anybody because someone has threatened me.
A I am a lurker
A- I am from a government agency and I'm secretly collecting information
on spooky people.
A-- I would like to read Alt.Anybody but I can't.
A3- I can only read alt.anybody by reading "junk".
A4- I don't read Alt.Anybody.
A5- I am dead.
A6- I am boring.
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P - Posting content
P++ I am Noel Coward.
P+ I reguarly have my readers in stiches.
P Wit, charm and generally amusing stuff.
P- Am an in at least one person's kill file.
P-- I posted the question "What is this newsgroup for?" once.
P3- I regularly post the question "What is this newsgroup for?"
P4- I am about to post the question "Whatis this newsgroup for?"
P5- I have posted a "Make Money Fast" style chain letter.
P6- I run a cheap porn film company.
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L - location
Ln I live north of Coventry
Li I live in Coventry
Ls I live south of Coventry
Le I live east of Coventry
Lw I live west of Coventry
L* I live on another planet millions of miles away from this place you
call Coventry
L! I live north of the north pole.
I have no concept of the world, let alone the cosmos, and have no idea
L? where I am in relation to anything. All I know is I have my little
wheel, my bed of straw, and my water bottle. Nothing else matters.
Lh I live in my own world, that exists only in my head.
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S - Sane or not - that is the question
S5+ I am the head of the BBC
S4+ I know not of this concept you call sanity
S3+ I occasionally have moments of sanity
S++ My sanity is questionable
S+ My sanity has occasionally been questioned
S I am sane
S- I am really sane
S-- I am so sane, that people go mad just looking at me
S3- I am so sane, I'm Insane
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E - Election status ??
E6+ I fixed the election
E5+ I broke the election
E4+ I ran the election
E3+ I have no positions, but I'm pretending I have to look good
E++ I have at least one major position
E+ I have one or more minor positions
E I was elected to a minor position in the alt.anybody elections
E- I was asleep during the election
E-- I still am asleep
E3- I have no friends
E4- Everyone I bribed voted for the wrong person
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X - Mr X or do you not have, an alter ego?
X4+ We are borg, you will be assimulated
X3+ We have unique names
X++ I use so many aliases, I don't know what my name is anymore
X+ I use more than one alias
X I use an alias
X- I had an alias, but lost it when I got into a position of power
X-- I have never had an alias, as they are silly things for people with
weak bladder control
X3- I am, or will be one day, Prime Minister
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U - Are you usual, or unusual? Does it matter? Do we care?
U4+ They thought I was a horse
U3+ I have a team of highly qualified people studying me at a certain
university
U++ I have been identified many times as the missing link
U+ I am fairly unusual
U I am unusual
U- I have few strange features
U-- I am normal
U3- I am extremely normal
U4- I am boring
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W - Do you have a web page?
W3+ I maintain official alt.anybody (web) documents
W++ I have an alt.anybody section on my webpage
W+ I have more than one webpage
W I have a webpage
W- I have an account, but I don't use it.
W-- I have never seen this internet thing, what is it.
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B - Boosters!
B3+ I created alt.anybody.
B++ I have the ability to send a booster newgroup signal for alt.anybody.
B+ I know how to send a booster newgroup signal.
B I support the alt.anybody booster campaign.
B- I don't think alt.anybody should be boosted, as it violates namespace.
B-- I know nothing about alt.anybody, but I will send an rmgroup if it
ever gets newgrouped.
B3- I am the most pedantic alt.config reader ever.
I read alt.config and I am venomously opposed to the creative spirit
B4- that lies dormant within the minds and bodies of all young
impressionable adults.
B5- I am Senator Exon.
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R - Obscene language .... tut tut tut (king!)
R3+ I am so foul, I'm a chicken
R++ I occasionally use the word copulate
R+ I use a few rude words, like tit and bum, but not in mixed company
R I don't use rude words.
R- I am aged 7
R-- I am a concerned adult
R3- I am Mary Whitehouse
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I - Interesting Mr Bond, or not as the case may be...
I++ If you look up interesting in the dictionary, you'll see my picture
I+ I am very interesting
I I am interesting
I- I am not very interesting
I-- I have no life
I3- I am rapier (just kidding... really.)
I4- I am a prime minister
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C - Participation in Cod Month
C4+ They call me the mighty 'Cod Piece'
C3+ What?... you saying its over?
C++ I ate -only- Cod...
C+ I ate cod during Cod week/Month thing
C I support Cod Day/Week/Month/Year
C- I don't like cod
C-- I am alergic to cod
C3- I am a cod, and I am not canibalistic
Ch++++ I wrote 'cod' is not hidden here, and people believed me.
Ch+++ I wrote 'cod' is not hidden here
Ch++ I renamed coventry to Codentry
Ch+ I hid the word Cod in my signature file
Ch- I hid the word Cod in my signature file, and no-one found it
Ch-- I am still hiding the word cod in my signature file
Ch--- I haven't got a signature file
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T - T-Shirt
T3+ I made my own, one off alt.anybody T-Shirt
T++ I submitted slogans/designs for the alt.anybody T-Shirt
T+ I would buy and wear an alt.anybody T-Shirt
T I wear T-shirts
T- I don't want anyone else to know I read alt.anybody
T-- I refuse to wear promotional material on principle
T3- I got elected on the banner of printing a T-Shirt but am really never
going to do anything about it.
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Ey - Eye colour
Eybl Blue eyes
Eybr Brown eyes
Eygr Green eyes
Eymw Mostly white eyes
Ey3 I have 3 eyes
Ey! I don't know what colour my eyes are every time I try to look the
mirror breaks.
Eybs My eyes are normally bloodshot and only appear brown when there's too
much blood in my alcohol stream.
Ey? I have no idea what colour my eyes are - they keep changing.
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Cu - Relationship with Coventry University
Cu3+ I am Micheal Goldstein (VC)
Cu++ I am a student at Cov Uni
Cu+ I work for Cov Uni
Cu I am at Uni elsewhere
Cu- I have never been to Uni
Cu-- Isn't that just a jumped up polytechnic?
Cu3- I am at Warwick Uni (Coventry's *second* university)
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Nationality
N++ I live in God's own country - the UK
N+ I am not fortunate enough to live in the UK but I live in another
member nation of the British Commonwealth of Nations
N I live in an unspecified Monarchy
N- I live in an unspecified Republic
N-- I live in the United States of America
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Knowledge of internet
In3+ I am Bill the Hamster
In++ I invented it
In+ I know lots about it and read RFCs and understand them
In Yes I use it
In- I send E-Mail
In-- Oh thats too complicated for me ....
In3- Its a disgusting place full of porn and should be banned!!!!!!!
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