From: Joseph Sterlynne (vxs@mailandnews.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 11:24:01 MST
Terry's suggested prefixes:
IRR NONSEQ NOTGUN PRIMGUN HURL BIGGUN FAKEGUN
ONTOPIC RAMBLING POWERTOOLS PRIVATE X
> Please use the "|" character to concatenate the various prefixes which will
> describe your post. Ex:
>
> IRR|NOTGUN|FAKEGUN|PRIVATE: The "Flamethrower"
Come on. You expect people posting to mailing lists---where you actually
have to type!---to write subject lines like that? It would actually be
something like:
IRR|NoTGUn /FAKEeGN|PRIVIT(sp?): The `Flamethroewr" was (was:Re:arrrgh))
So, anyway, if I've understood your above prefix suggestions then I should be
able to post, say,
LIRR|NOGUNRI|FAKEGUM|HURD|OCTOPIC|BIGGUS|PRIVATE: Urp
which would be about a low-ranking soldier taking the Long Island Railroad
toward the site of a massacre in Korea while working on the GNU (_not_ GUN)
kernel and looking at an eight-photograph layout of a character from _The
Life of Brian_ after finding some plastic for-display-only chewing gum and
eating it.
Thanks, but I'll have a list without so much gun in it.
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