[11427] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: remove from mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Fri Apr 1 23:34:12 1994
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 18:48:04 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Tom Meyer <MEYER_T@gold.colorado.edu>
Cc: hnd@chevron.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <01HANXF3V1EE8Y88CJ@CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU>
On Fri, 1 Apr 1994, Tom Meyer wrote:
> Barry is right. If you've been paying any attention in recent weeks you should
> know by now that once you're on this list you're on for life. Just keep quiet
> and learn to live with it.
>
> I made the mistake of subscribing the whole family to com-priv some years ago
> and none of us has ever been able to get off. We made a desperate attempt to
> escape during the Shein-Schreibman flame war last year. But it was futile.
> The stuff just keeps on coming. To make matters worse I have one of those old
> terminals that prints everything on yellow paper because it has no CRT, so
> we've got a lot of com-priv around here. My wife made Vigdor wallpaper for the
> antique room and I have Stephen Wolff in the library. We're also stocked in
> spades with rolls of Cook Report. My son plays com-priv on his Sound Blaster
> day and night. He's really into the latest Karl Denninger... all American
> stuff but he plays it over and over at high volume. Teenagers!
>
> Living on the Information Highway certainly has influenced our lives. Recently
> my wife overheard our daughter and her little friends talking about CIX, but so
> far I'm not convinced there's anything wrong with it. We've learned to cope.
> Last fall after discovering the computer room floors were sagging, we started
> com-posting com-priv and putting it on the garden. If anyone knows where to
> get AUP free seedlings for the tree of knowledge, please email me. Thanks.
Com-Posting is good, excellent in the "spirit of the day", but you really
need to move into the '90s. You do know that you can get NEW yellow paper
from your OLD com-priv yellow paper, so long as you haven't used it in the
com-privey. Mix in all the clean chad you have, (not plastic, though) and
all of the chips you have on hand. Soak it in water as if you were
com-posting it, and once it's a yellow sog, thoroughly com-pound it into a
shapless mass. Then com-press it back into long sheets and wrap it back
on the cores. Of course you can only use com-pies, or you'd lose your
com-plete com-priv archive. Oh, if you have any old com-pile listings
hanging around, throw them in to com-plete the com-paste.
As for us, any com-priv messages that com-e in get punched into good old
rand style com-cards, and we've cemented them together and made a
com-plete new addition to the com-building in just a year.
:-) Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
