Go to Prison FAST !! READ ME NOW!! Caps Lock?? What's that?

[Will Sappington]

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:35:25 GMT, ent...@coastnet.com (Keith Davies)
wrote:

>su...@sydney.net (Sue Rykmans) wrote:
>
>> Charles Doane <gdo...@primenet.com> wrote:
>> >William Brian wrote:
>> >>
>> >> TAKING 5 MINUTES TO READ WHAT FOLLOWS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE:
>> >> .... !!!
>> >> --
>> >> William Brian
>
>> >Can ANYBODY tell me what I need to do to make sure these conniving
>> >cheating bastards never see the light of a day in freedom ever again???
>> >Off-Topic, Illegal, Satanic, Idiotic posts like this need the poster to
>> >be locked up in prison forever. Hopefully not an American lovey-dovey
>> >prison, real hard time! Pyramid schemes are a tax on stupidity. Sorta
>> >like the Lottery.
>
>> I wish I had the answeres for you, as I also am sick to the back teeth
>> of spending hours on-line to download from newsgroups only to find
>> that 85-90% of the postings are from idiots advertising their 'get
>> rich quick' schemes.
>
>This won't work to get them stuffed in a cell, but something I've found
>rather satisfying is to forward the article to postm...@fuckwits.com;
>I usually get a reply within a day or two telling me the dickhead got his
>account yanked - sometimes temporarily, often permanently.
>
>Simply forward the message directly to the postmaster (or ab...@aol.com
>if appropriate - they get a lot of these) with a note similar to this
>at the top:
>'
>[message header, including
>Subject: make money fast (fwd)
>(don't change the subject)]
>
>I found this article posted in rec.sewing.poked.my.finger; it is
>massively crossposted and has illegal contents. Apparantly it was
>posted by one I.M. Fuckwit at your site (ifuc...@fuckwits.com).
>
>These messages are illegal, unethical, and very annoying. Please
>deal with this person appropriately.
>
>Keith
>--
>[I typically include my .sig here]
>-- Included (illegal) message --
>[include the entire message]
>'
>
>I don't encourage mailbombing administrators; administration can be a
>tough job and it's not polite to do. OTOH, if ten people per group (a
>miniscule percentage) in every group a message is Xposted to does this,
>think about how many messages he's going to receive. More to the point,
>think about his reaction and how he'll treat the dickhead....
>

Keith, I LOVE IT! I copied your instructions and I'll start doing
this right now in the groups I subscribe to. Maybe it won't save the
world but If it will help get a few of these peckerheads' accounts
yanked, the satisfaction alone will be worth the effort. Thanks for
the idea!!

>> IMHO, the media should be shot for telling the general public about
>> the internet, it's almost totally ruined it for the serious 'net
>> users.
>
>Partly the media's fault, but if the web and a WinDoze interface hadn't
>come along I don't think the 'net would be nearly so goddam crowded.
>
>Hmm, I wonder if we can go back to UNIX for OS and ASCII for
>interface - that would thin 'em out...
>
>If you are offended by the language, I apologize. I don't normally
>write (or speak) like this, but pyramid schemes, chain letters, and
>other similar shit annoy the hell out of me.
>
>Keith
>--
>
As to the rest of it, I think you're right on the money. Especially
the part about WinDoze. GUI-WIMP interfaces have made computers easy
enough to use that even John Q. Public can now get by with a feeble
attempt. Every corporate marketing department in the world (well at
least in the US) knows that if you want something to fly with the
public, keep it simple, real simple. If you doubt this check out all
the no-brainer TV, the no-brainer movies, the no-brainer music, the
no-brainer press out there that are making *tons* of money. Anything
the public has to work too hard to watch, read, or listen to won't
fly. Making computers "simple" to use, along with the media's hype of
everything cyber has given the simple-heads yet another toy.
Unfortunately, serious users pay the price for their half-assed games.
Somebody please go back in time and shoot Gates before he gets a
chance to start Microsoft!

-will