🚀 go-pugleaf

On 27 Feb 1996 11:54:19 GMT, fe...@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (Ferdinand
Goldmann) wrote:

>Trevor May (trevo...@zetnet.co.uk) wrote:
>: Flame people the easy way with this handy form!
>
>... how about writing a perl script that goes through the points and then
>sends the mail using the 'write' command to produce a nicely formatted mail.
>Would be neat. How about even writing a curses based program. Or even X-Motif
>based!! You could call it 'easyflame' and get rich with it! Like
>NetScape. Flaming has a future hehe.


Dear

 [X] dummy       [ ] useless SOB          [ ] pres...@whitehouse.gov
 [ ] newbie      [ ] ignorant AOL-type    [ ] False Prophet
 [ ] Pink Boy    [ ] ignoramus, misc.     [ ] (insert your name here)

   You are being sent this letter/flame because

 [X] you posted some crap that doesn't belong in this group
 [ ] you posted a "test" to someplace other than alt.test
 [ ] you posted a request for an article which was posted three
     times in the past week
 [ ] you posted a request for a mythical gif
 [ ] I am sleep-netting again and am unaware of my actions
 [ ] you didn't look in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file
before 
     posting your question
 [ ] you said something   [ ] pointlessly rude   [ ] incomprehensible
                          [ ] dangerously inaccurate
 [ ] you posted an inanely stupid and illegal 'Make Money Fast'
article
 [ ] I left a terminal with my account logged in and someone found it
 [ ] you posted public request for adult FTP sites instead of email
 [X] you posted a [f]ollowup when you should have made a [r]eply
 [ ] your .sig is larger than anything you can think to say
 [ ] I don't like your dumb handle
 [ ] I don't like your face
 [ ] you quoted an entire article when you didn't need to

    To clear yourself of this infraction, you must

 [ ] ask me nicely to send you "EFF's Guide to the Internet"
 [X] beat yourself soundly about the head and shoulders
 [ ] go to news.answers and read everything you find there
 [ ] learn how to use control-k to edit
 [ ] pull your head out of your ass
 [ ] take a 1-week sabbatical from the keyboard
 [ ] take a 1-year sabbatical from the keyboard
 [ ] never come within 30 yards of another terminal
 [X] pay more attention to netiquette
 [ ] send $1 to The SubGenius Foundation, Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214

     and PRAY IT'S NOT TOO LATE ALREADY

   and don't do it again.  Lastly,

 [ ] good luck
 [X] get help
 [X] get bent

B-)